Isaiah 22:1-13

A Prophecy About Jerusalem 1A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,

2you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.

3All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.

4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”

5The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.

6Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.

7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates.

8The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.

9You saw that the walls of the City of David were broken through in many places; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.

10You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.

11You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.

12The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

13But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”