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Therefore I said:
    “Look away from me;
        and let me weep bitter tears;
don’t try to console[a] me
    over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”[b]
For to the Lord God of the Heavenly Armies
    belongs the day of tumult, trampling, and confusion
        in the Valley of Vision,[c]
and the pulling down of his Temple on[d] its mountain.
Elam takes up the quiver
    with chariots and cavalry,
        while Kir unsheathes the shield.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:4 Lit. don’t insist on consoling
  2. Isaiah 22:4 I.e. the Lord’s beloved people
  3. Isaiah 22:5 I.e. a poetic allusion to the Hinnom Valley in Jerusalem
  4. Isaiah 22:5 Or his Holy Place on; so 1QIsaa; MT reads and a crying out for help to