Isaiah 22:1-5

1This message came to me concerning Jerusalem—the Valley of Vision: What is happening? Why is everyone running to the rooftops?

2The whole city is in a terrible uproar. What do I see in this reveling city? Bodies are lying everywhere, killed not in battle but by famine and disease.

3All your leaders have fled. They surrendered without resistance. The people tried to slip away, but they were captured, too.

4That’s why I said, “Leave me alone to weep; do not try to comfort me. Let me cry for my people as I watch them being destroyed.”

5Oh, what a day of crushing defeat! What a day of confusion and terror brought by the Lord, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, upon the Valley of Vision! The walls of Jerusalem have been broken, and cries of death echo from the mountainsides.