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All of your rulers have fled together without a bow;
    all of you who were found[a] were captured.
They were captured together;
    they had fled far away.

Therefore I said,

“Look away from me,
    let me weep bitterly;[b]
you must not insist on comforting me
    for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion[c] in the valley of vision,
    a tearing down of walls[d] and a cry for help to the mountains.[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:3 Literally “your found ones”
  2. Isaiah 22:4 Literally “be bitter in weeping”
  3. Isaiah 22:5 These three Hebrew words are alliterative: mehûmâûmeḇûsâûmeḇûḵâ
  4. Isaiah 22:5 Hebrew “wall”
  5. Isaiah 22:5 Hebrew “mountain”

All your leaders have fled(A) together;
    they have been captured(B) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(C) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(D)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(E)
    of tumult and trampling(F) and terror(G)
    in the Valley of Vision,(H)
a day of battering down walls(I)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

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