22:3 your leaders have fled. The people were governed by unreliable and selfish leaders who abandoned them to save their own lives (2 Kin. 25:4–6). The prophet is critical of human leadership and of people who have no understanding of what is happening around them (1:23–26; 3:13–15; 9:14–17; 19:13–15; 28:7–13; 29:15).