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Therefore I say, “Turn your gaze away from me,
Let me (A)weep bitterly,
Do not insist on comforting me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
(B)For Lord Yahweh of hosts has a (C)day of confusion, (D)oppression, and panic
(E)In the valley of vision,
A breaking down of walls
And a crying [a]to the mountain.
(F)Now Elam took up the quiver
With the chariots, [b]infantry, and horsemen;
And (G)Kir uncovered the shield.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:5 Or against
  2. Isaiah 22:6 Lit man

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

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(C)
    of tumult and trampling(D) and terror(E)
    in the Valley of Vision,(F)
a day of battering down walls(G)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
Elam(H) takes up the quiver,(I)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir(J) uncovers the shield.

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