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Therefore I said,

“Look away from me,
    let me weep bitterly;[a]
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[b] in the valley of vision,
    a tearing down of walls[c] and a cry for help to the mountains.[d]
And Elam lifted up the quiver,
        with chariots[e] of men[f] and cavalry.
    And Kir uncovered the shield.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:4 Literally “be bitter in weeping”
  2. Isaiah 22:5 These three Hebrew words are alliterative: mehûmâûmeḇûsâûmeḇûḵâ
  3. Isaiah 22:5 Hebrew “wall”
  4. Isaiah 22:5 Hebrew “mountain”
  5. Isaiah 22:6 Hebrew “chariot”
  6. Isaiah 22:6 Hebrew “man”

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(B)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(C)
    of tumult and trampling(D) and terror(E)
    in the Valley of Vision,(F)
a day of battering down walls(G)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
Elam(H) takes up the quiver,(I)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir(J) uncovers the shield.

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