Isaiah 22:3

Proclamation Against Jerusalem

1 The¹ burden against the Valley of Vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

2 You who a¹re full of noise,
A tumultuous city, ^aa joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together;
They are captured by the archers.
All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar.

4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
^aI will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

5 ^aFor it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
^bBy the Lord God of hosts
In the Valley of Vision—
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.

6 ^aElam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And ^bKir uncovered the shield.

7 It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys
Shall be full of chariots,
And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

Commentaries:

Adam Clarke

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All thy rulers - are bound by the archers "All thy leaders - are fled from the bow" - There seems to be somewhat of an inconsistency in the sense according to the present reading. If the leaders were bound, usseru , how could they flee away? for their being bound, according to the obvious construction and course of the sentence, is a circumstance prior to their flight. I therefore follow Houbigant, who reads huseru , remoti sunt , "they are gone off." galu , transmigraverunt , Chaldee; which seems to confirm this emendation.

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