Isaiah 22:1-13

1The burden against the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

2You who are full of noise, A tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain men are not slain with the sword, Nor dead in battle.

3All your rulers have fled together; They are captured by the archers. All who are found in you are bound together; They have fled from afar.

4Therefore I said, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

5For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord God of hosts In the Valley of Vision— Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain.

6Elam bore the quiver With chariots of men and horsemen, And Kir uncovered the shield.

7It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys Shall be full of chariots, And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

8He removed the protection of Judah. You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest;

9You also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great; And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

10You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall.

11You also made a reservoir between the two walls For the water of the old pool. But you did not look to its Maker, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

12And in that day the Lord God of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

13But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”