Isaiah 22:3

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:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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rulers—rather, "generals" (Joshua 10:24; Judges 11:6, Judges 11:11).

bound—rather, "are taken."

by the archers—literally, "by the bow"; so Isaiah 21:17. Bowmen were the light troops, whose province it was to skirmish in front and (II Kings 6:22) pursue fugitives (II Kings 25:5); this verse applies better to the attack of Nebuchadnezzar than that of Sennacherib.

all . . . in thee—all found in the city (Isaiah 13:15), not merely the "rulers" or generals.

fled from far—those who had fled from distant parts to Jerusalem as a place of safety; rather, fled afar.

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