Isaiah 22:1-14 - Oracle Against Jerusalem

¹ The burden of the valley of visions. What hast thou to do here, that thou climbest unto the house tops, ² O thou city of miracles, seditious and willful? Thy slain men are neither killed with sword, nor dead in battle. ³ For all thy Captains gat them to their horses from the ordinance, yea they are all together ridden away, and fled far off. ⁴ When I perceived that, I said, "Let me alone, and I will make lamentation. Take no labour for to comfort me, as touching the destruction of my people." ⁵ For this is the day of the LORD of Hosts, wherein he will plague, tread down, and weed out the valley of visions, and break down the walls, with such a crack, that it shall give a sound in the mountains. ⁶ Elam bare the quiver in a chariot of footmen and of horsemen, and the city of Kir showed the shield open. ⁷ Thy chief valley also was full of chariots, and the horsemen set their faces directly toward the gate. ⁸ Then was the covering of Judah put from thence, and then was seen the siege of the timber house. ⁹ There shall ye see the rifts in the walls of the city of David, whereof there shall be many. Ye shall gather together the waters of the lower pool, ¹⁰ and number the houses of Jerusalem, and break of some of them to make the wall strong. ¹¹ And ye shall make a pit betwixt the twain walls of the water of the old pool, and nothing regard him that took it in hand, and made it long ago.

¹² And at the same time shall the LORD of Hosts call men to weeping, mourning, to baldness and a putting on of sackcloth. ¹³ But they to fulfill their lust and willfulness, slaughter oxen: they kill sheep, they eat costly meat, and drink wine. "Let us eat and drink, tomorrow we shall die." ¹⁴ Nevertheless, when the LORD of Hosts heard of it, he said: "Yea, if this wickedness of yours shall be remitted, ye must die for it." This hath the LORD God of Hosts spoken.