Isaiah 22:2-4

New International Reader's Version

² Why is your town so full of noise?
    Why is your city so full of the sound of wild parties?
Those among you who died weren’t killed by swords.
    They didn’t die in battle.
³ All your leaders have run away.
    They’ve been captured without a single arrow being shot.
All you who were caught were taken away as prisoners.
    You ran off while your enemies were still far away.
⁴ So I said, “Leave me alone.
    Let me weep bitter tears.
Don’t try to comfort me.
    My people have been destroyed.”