Isaiah 22:1-6

A Prophecy About Jerusalem

1 A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,
2 you town so full of commotion, you city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”
5 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.

Cross References 20

  • 1. Isaiah 13:1
  • 2. Psalms 125:2; Jeremiah 21:13; Joel 3:2,12,14
  • 3. S Isaiah 1:1
  • 4. S Joshua 2:8; Jeremiah 48:38
  • 5. Ezekiel 22:5
  • 6. S Isaiah 5:14; S Isaiah 21:5; Isaiah 32:13
  • 7. S Isaiah 10:4
  • 8. S 2 Kings 25:3
  • 9. S Isaiah 13:14
  • 10. S 2 Kings 25:6
  • 11. S Isaiah 15:3; S Lamentations 1:16; Ezekiel 21:6; Luke 19:41
  • 12. Jeremiah 9:1
  • 13. S Isaiah 2:12
  • 14. S Job 40:12; S Psalms 108:13
  • 15. S 2 Samuel 22:43; Isaiah 13:3; Jeremiah 30:7; Lamentations 1:5; Ezekiel 8:17-18; Ezekiel 9:9-10; Joel 2:31; Amos 5:18-20; Zephaniah 1:15
  • 16. S Isaiah 1:1
  • 17. Nehemiah 6:15; S Psalms 89:40; Isaiah 5:5; Jeremiah 39:8; Ezekiel 13:14
  • 18. S Isaiah 21:2
  • 19. Psalms 46:9; Jeremiah 49:35; Jeremiah 51:56
  • 20. S 2 Kings 16:9
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