Therefore said I, Turn away from me, I will weep [a]bitterly: labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of trouble, and of ruin, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the city: and a [b]crying unto the mountains.

¶ And Elam [c]bare the quiver in a man’s chariot with horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:4 He showeth what is the duty of the godly, when God’s plagues hang over the Church, and especially of the ministers, Jer. 9:1.
  2. Isaiah 22:5 That is, the shout of the enemies whom God had appointed to destroy the city.
  3. Isaiah 22:6 He putteth them in mind how God delivered them once from Sennacherib, who brought the Persians and Cyrenians with him, that they might by returning to God avoid that great plague which they should else suffer by Nebuchadnezzar.

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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