Isaiah 22:2-4

Common English Bible

²     you who are filled with noise,
    you roaring city, you party town?
Your dead weren’t slaughtered by the sword;
    they didn’t die in battle.
³ All your leaders escaped together
    but were captured without a single bow shot.
    All your escapees were bound together, even though they fled far away.^[a]
4 Therefore, I said, “Don’t look at me;
        let me weep bitterly.
    Don’t try to comfort me
        about the destruction of my dearly loved people.”