The Book of the Prophet Isaiah
Isaiah, Chapter 22
The burden of the valley of vision: What [ails] you now, that you have gone up to the housetops?
Crashings fill the noisy city, the joyous city. Your slain ones [are] not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
All your rulers fled together; they were bound without the bow; all found in you were bound together; they have fled from afar.
On account of this I said, look away from me; I will weep bitterly; do not hurry to comfort me over the ruin of the daughter of my people.
for [it is] a day of trouble, and of trampling down, and of perplexity, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, in the valley of vision; digging down a wall, and crying to the mountain.
And Persia carried the quiver with a chariot of a man and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
And it happened; your choicest valleys were full of chariots; and the horsemen surely set in order at the gate.
And he removed Judah's covering; and you looked in that day to the armor of the house of the forest.
You have also seen the breaks in the city of David, that they are many; and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.