221 The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, 2 you that are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead in battle. 3 Your rulers have all fled together; they were captured without the use of a bow. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away. 4 Therefore I said: Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people. 5 For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains. 6 Elam bore the quiver with chariots and cavalry, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry took their stand at the gates.
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 22:1-7
Commentary on Isaiah 22:1-7
(Read Isaiah 22:1-7)
Why is Jerusalem in such terror? Her slain men are not slain with the sword, but with famine; or, slain with fear, disheartened. Their rulers fled, but were overtaken. The servants of God, who foresee and warn sinners of coming miseries, are affected by the prospect. But all the horrors of a city taken by storm, faintly shadow forth the terrors of the day of wrath.