Isaiah 22
Reading Isaiah chapter 22 in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.
Verses 1–10
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?
2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All thy rulers have fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, [who] have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the devastation of the daughter of my people.
5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it shall come to pass, [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he uncovered the coverings of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.
9 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye collected 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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