Commentary on Isaiah Volume 1 John Calvin
Chapter
Isaiah Chapter 22:1-25 1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops?
1. Onus vallis visionis. Quid tibi hic, (vel, nunc?) quia tu universa conscendisti super tecta?
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.
2. Strepituum plena, urbs turbulenta, civitas exultans; interfecti tui non interfecti gladio, et non mortui in prælio.
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.
3. Cuncti principes tui profugerunt parita ab arcu; vincti sunt. Omnes, inquam, in te reperti vincti sunt pariter, qui a longinquo fugerunt.
4. 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.
4. Propterea dixi, Desistite a me; amarus ero in fletu meo, ne contendatis me consolari super vastatione filiæ populi mei.
5. For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
5. Quoniam dies perturbationis, et conculcationis, et anxietatis Domino Iehovæ exercituum in valle visionis, diruenti urbem, et clamor ad montem.
6. And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
6. Atqui Elam portans pharetram in curru hominis, equitum, inquam, et Ceir nudans clypeum.