Isaiah 22:1-14 - Oracle Against Jerusalem

¹ The burden concerning the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? ² You that are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. ³ All your rulers have fled together, they are captured by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, who have fled from afar. ⁴ Therefore said I, Look away from me: I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the plundering of the daughter of my people. ⁵ For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. ⁶ And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. ⁷ And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. ⁸ And he took away the covering of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest. ⁹ You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. ¹⁰ And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall. ¹¹ You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked unto its maker, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.

¹² And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call for weeping, and for mourning, and for baldness, and for girding with sackcloth: ¹³ But instead, joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating meat, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. ¹⁴ And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.