🕊️WEB · Isaiah 22:7
What does Isaiah 22:7 mean?
"Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate."
— Isaiah 22:7 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
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