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Isaiah 22:3
All your rulers... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
Isaiah 22:3 · Bible in Basic English
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Isaiah 22:3 in other translations
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.
All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
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In context
1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
3 All your rulers... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision;...
6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
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