Isaiah 22:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹You saw the holes in the outer wall of Jerusalem, and you brought water from the lower pool.^[a] ¹⁰You counted the houses in Jerusalem and tore down some of them, so you could get stones to repair the city wall. ¹¹Then you built a large tank between the walls^[b] to store the water. But you refused to trust the God who planned this long ago and made it happen.

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Footnotes

22.9 the lower pool: Mentioned only here; probably in the southern part of the Central Valley (Tyropoean Valley) of Jerusalem.
22.11 between the walls: Some cities had two walls with a space between them. If the enemy broke through the outer wall, the city was still protected by the inner wall. The houses that were torn down to repair the outer wall were probably squatters' huts that had been built between the two walls.