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Isaiah 22:5

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

For the Lord God of Armies had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion in the Valley of Vision – people shouting  and crying to the mountains;

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Then they will begin to say to the mountains, “Fall on us! ” and to the hills, “Cover us! ”   ,


The best of them is like a briar; the most upright is worse than a hedge of thorns. The day of your watchmen, the day of your punishment, is coming; at this time their panic is here.


Her adversaries have become her masters; her enemies are at ease, for the Lord has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the adversary.


They said to him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: “Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace.  It is as if children have come to the point of birth, and there is no strength to deliver them.


I will send him against a godless nation; I will command him to go against a people destined for my rage, to take spoils, to plunder, and to trample them down like clay  in the streets.


The high places  of Aven, the sin of Israel, will be destroyed; thorns and thistles will grow over their altars. They will say to the mountains,  ‘Cover us! ’ and to the hills, ‘Fall on us! ’


Without compassion  the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In his wrath he has demolished the fortified cities  of Daughter Judah. He brought them to the ground and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.


How awful that day will be! There will be no other like it! It will be a time of trouble for Jacob, but he will be saved out of it.


A pronouncement  concerning the Valley of Vision: What’s the matter with you? Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?


‘then those in Judea must flee to the mountains.


For the Lord’s power will rest on this mountain. But Moab  will be trampled in his place as straw is trampled in a dung pile.


Now I will tell you what I am about to do to my vineyard: I will remove its hedge, and it will be consumed; I will tear down its wall, and it will be trampled.


The couriers left, spurred on by royal command, and the law was issued in the fortress of Susa.  The king and Haman sat down to drink, while the city of Susa was in confusion.


The whole Chaldean army with the captain of the guards tore down the walls  surrounding Jerusalem.


They said to him, ‘This is what Hezekiah says: “Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace, for children have come to the point of birth,  but there is no strength to deliver them.


I trampled the winepress alone, and no one from the nations was with me. I trampled them in my anger and ground them underfoot in my fury; their blood spattered my garments, and all my clothes were stained.


I crushed nations in my anger; I made them drunk with my wrath and poured out their blood on the ground.


Doom  has come on you, inhabitants of the land. The time has come; the day is near. There will be panic on the mountains and not celebration.


That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of destruction and desolation, a day of darkness  and gloom, a day of clouds and total darkness,


The Lord determined to destroy the wall of Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not restrain himself from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls grieve; together they waste away.





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