KJV 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.
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Isaiah 22:3
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
WEB World English Bible
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.
ASV American Standard Version
All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 22
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 the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
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.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
כָּל־H3605 · kolallקְצִינַ֥יִךְH7101 · qa.tsinchiefנָֽדְדוּ־H5074 · na.dadto wanderיַ֖חַדH3162 · ya.chadunitednessמִקֶּ֣שֶׁתH7198 · qe.shetbowאֻסָּ֑רוּH631 · a.sarto bindכָּל־H3605 · kolallנִמְצָאַ֙יִךְ֙H4672 · ma.tsato findאֻסְּר֣וּH631 · a.sarto bindיַחְדָּ֔וH3162 · ya.chadunitednessמֵרָח֖וֹקH7350 · ra.choqdistantבָּרָֽחוּ׃H1272 · ba.rachto flee
Cross-references
Isaiah 3:1-8For, behold, the Lord, the LORD of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,Jeremiah 39:4-7And it came to pass, [that] when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.2 Kings 25:4-7And the city was broken up, and all the men of war [fled] by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which [is] by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees [were] against the city round about:) and [the king] went the way toward the plain.Jeremiah 52:24-27And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:2 Kings 25:18-21And the captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:
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