Isaiah 22:4

That is why I said, “Allow me to cry alone; do not try to comfort me about my people being slaughtered.”

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

In Context

3All the leaders of the city fled. But then they were captured because they did not have bows and arrows to defend themselves. Your soldiers tried to flee while the enemy army was still far away, but they also were captured.

5The Commander of the armies of angels has chosen a time when there will be a great uproar, soldiers marching, and people being terrified in the valley where I received this vision. It will be a time when our city walls will be battered down and the people’s cries for help will be heard in the mountains.

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Cross References

Ruth 1:20Naomi said to them, “Don’t call me Naomi, which means ‘pleasant’. Instead, call me Mara, which means ‘bitter’, because God Almighty has made my life very unpleasant.

Psalms 77:2Whenever have trouble, I pray to the Lord; all during the night I lift up my hands while I pray, but nothing causes me to be comforted.

Isaiah 33:7But now, look, our brave men are crying out in the streets; our ambassadors have gone to other countries to make peace treaties, but they will cry bitterly because they will not succeed.

Jeremiah 6:26So I say, “My dear people, put on ◄sackcloth/rough clothes► and sit in ashes to show that you are sorry for your sins. Mourn and cry very much, like [SIM] a woman would cry if her only son had died, because your enemies are very near, and they are going to destroy everything.”

Jeremiah 9:1I wish that my head was like [MET] a spring of water, and that my eyes were like a fountain of tears. Then I would cry night and day for all of my people who have been killed by our enemies.

Jeremiah 31:15Yahweh also says this: “Women were weeping in Ramah town on the border between Israel and Judah; they were mourning and crying very loudly. The women who were the descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, the two grandsons of Rachel the wife of Jacob, were weeping about their children, and no one could comfort them because their children were all dead.

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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