Isaiah 22:8-10
New Living Translation
8 Judah’s defenses have been stripped away.
You run to the armory[a] for your weapons.
9 You inspect the breaks in the walls of Jerusalem.[b]
You store up water in the lower pool.
10 You survey the houses and tear some down
for stone to strengthen the walls.
Footnotes
- 22:8 Hebrew to the House of the Forest; see 1 Kgs 7:2-5.
- 22:9 Hebrew the city of David.
Isaiah 22:8-10
King James Version
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
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