rsv Isaiah:22:1-9
rsv@Isaiah:22:1 @ The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,
rsv@Isaiah:22:2 @ you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.
rsv@Isaiah:22:3 @ All your rulers have fled together, without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.
rsv@Isaiah:22:4 @ Therefore I said: "Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
rsv@Isaiah:22:5 @ For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
rsv@Isaiah:22:6 @ And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
rsv@Isaiah:22:7 @ Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
rsv@Isaiah:22:8 @ He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
rsv@Isaiah:22:9 @ and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool,