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Elamites are the archers,
    with their chariots and charioteers.
    The men of Kir hold up the shields.
Chariots fill your beautiful valleys,
    and charioteers storm your gates.
Judah’s defenses have been stripped away.
    You run to the armory[a] for your weapons.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:8 Hebrew to the House of the Forest; see 1 Kgs 7:2-5.

Elam(A) takes up the quiver,(B)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir(C) uncovers the shield.
Your choicest valleys(D) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(E)

The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
    and you looked in that day(F)
    to the weapons(G) in the Palace of the Forest.(H)

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And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

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