Isaiah 22:1-13

1The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

2you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.

3All your leaders have fled together; without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

4Therefore I said: "Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

5For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

6And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.

7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.

8He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

9and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool,

10and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.

12In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

13and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."