Isa 22:1-14 | ESV | STEP | The oracle concerning the valley of vision . What do you mean that you have gone up , all of you, to the housetops ,

1 The ^aoracle concerning ^bthe valley of vision.

What do you mean that you have gone up,
all of you, to the housetops,
2 you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, ^cexultant town?
Your slain are ^dnot slain with the sword
or dead in battle.
3 ^eAll your leaders have fled together;
without the bow they were captured.
All of you who were found were captured,
though they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
^flet me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 ^gFor the Lord God of hosts has ^ha day
of tumult and ⁱtrampling and ^jconfusion
in ^kthe valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a shouting to the mountains.
6 And ^lElam bore the quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and ^mKir uncovered the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
8 He has taken away ⁿthe covering of Judah.
In that day you looked to ^othe weapons of the House of the Forest, 9 and you saw that ^pthe breaches of the city of David were many. ^qYou collected the waters of the lower pool, 10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11 ^rYou made a reservoir between ^sthe two walls for the water of ^tthe old pool. But ^uyou did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.

12 In that day ^vthe Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for ^wbaldness and ^xwearing sackcloth;
13 and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
^y“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
14 The Lord of hosts ^zhas revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely ^aathis iniquity will not be atoned for you ^abuntil you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.