Isaiah 22:3

All thy princes have fled, and thy captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in thee have fled far away.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

In Context

2The city is filled with shouting men: thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died in battle.

4Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

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Cross References

2 Kings 25:7And he slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and brought him to Babylon.

Isaiah 3:1Behold now, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, will take away from Jerusalem and from Judea the mighty man and mighty woman, the strength of bread, and the strength of water,

Jeremiah 39:5and Zedekiah shall go into Babylon, and dwell there?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 22:2-8

The Consternation of Jerusalem. ( b. c. 718.) 1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2 Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of… Read the whole commentary →

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