Isaiah 22:6

Isaiah 22:6

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.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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Elam—the country stretching east from the Lower Tigris, answering to what was afterwards called Persia (see on Isaiah 21:2). Later, Elam was a province of Persia (Ezra 4:9). In Sennacherib's time, Elam was subject to Assyria (II Kings 18:11), and so furnished a contingent to its invading armies. Famed for the bow (Isaiah 13:18; Jeremiah 49:35), in which the Ethiopians alone excelled them.

with chariots of men and horsemen—that is, they used the bow both in chariots and on horseback. "Chariots of men," that is, chariots in which men are borne, war chariots (compare see on Isaiah 21:7; Isaiah 21:9).

Kir—another people subject to Assyria (II Kings 16:9); the region about the river Kur, between the Caspian and Black Seas.

uncovered—took off for the battle the leather covering of the shield, intended to protect the embossed figures on it from dust or injury during the march. "The quiver" and "the shield" express two classes—light and heavy armed troops.

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