Isaiah 22:1-14 - Oracle Against Jerusalem

¹ The burden against the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have gone up to the housetops? ² Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. ³ All your rulers fled together; they were bound without the bow; all found in you are bound together; they have fled from afar. ⁴ Therefore I said, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me because of the ruin of the daughter of my people. ⁵ For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling down, and of doubt by Jehovah of Hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountain. ⁶ And Persia carried the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. ⁷ And it happened, your choicest valleys were full of chariots; and the horsemen surely set in order at the gate. ⁸ And he removed Judah's covering, and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest. ⁹ You have seen also the breaks in the city of David, that they are many; and you gathered the waters of the lower pool. ¹⁰ And you have counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you have broken down the houses to fortify the wall. ¹¹ You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool; but you have not looked to its Maker, nor saw Him who formed it long ago.

¹² And in that day Jehovah of Hosts called to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. ¹³ Then, lo, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! ¹⁴ And it was revealed in my ears by Jehovah of Hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you until you die, says the Lord Jehovah of Hosts.