🕊️WEB · Isaiah 22:6
What does Isaiah 22:6 mean?
"Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield."
— Isaiah 22:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”
Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
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