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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.
8 aHe removed the1 protection of Judah.
You looked in that day to the armor bof the House of the Forest; 
9 aYou also saw the1 damage to the city of David,
That it was great;
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 
10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall.
11 aYou also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old bpool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago. 
12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
aCalled for weeping and for mourning,
bFor baldness and for girding with sackcloth. 
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and adrinking wine:
b“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” 
14 aThen it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,
“Surely for this iniquity there bwill be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.  

The Judgment on Shebna

15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts:
“Go, proceed to this steward,
To aShebna, who is over the house, and say: 
Commentaries:
John Wesley's Notes
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Isaiah 22:1

The valley - Of Judah; and especially of Jerusalem, called a valley, because great part of it flood in a valley; and the valley of vision, because of the many and clear visions or revelations of God's mind, in that place. House - tops - As they used to do in times of great consternation, that they might look, to and cry to heaven for help.


 
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