Isaiah 22:3
Good News Translation
All your leaders ran away and were captured before they shot a single arrow.

New Revised Standard Version
Your rulers have all fled together; they were captured without the use of a bow. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

Contemporary English Version
Your leaders ran away, but they were captured without a fight. No matter how far they ran, they were found and caught.

New American Bible
All your leaders fled away together, they were captured without use of bow; All who were found were captured together, though they had fled afar off.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

thy rulers

Isaiah 3:1-8 For behold the sovereign Lord of hosts shall take away from Jerusalem, and from Juda the valiant and the strong, the whole strength of bread, and the whole strength of water. . . .

2 Kings 25:4-7,18-21 And a breach was made into the city: and all the men of war fled in the night between the two walls by the king's garden (now the Chaldees besieged the city round about), and Sedecias fled by the way that leadeth to the plains of the wilderness. . . .

Jeremiah 39:4-7 And when Sedecias the king of Juda and all the men of war saw them, they fled: and they went forth in the night out of the city by the way of the king's garden, and by the gate that was between the two walls, and they went out to the way of the desert. . . .

Jeremiah 52:24-27 And the general took Saraias the chief priest, and Sophonias the second priest, and the three keepers of the entry. . . .

by the archers.

Context
The Valley of Vision
2Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle. 3All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.4Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.…
Cross References
Isaiah 21:15
For they are fled from before the swords, from the sword that hung over them, from the bent bow, from the face of a grievous battle.

Jeremiah 4:9
And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord: That the heart of the king shall perish, and the heart of the princes: and the priests shall be astonished, and the prophets shall be amazed.

Isaiah 22:2
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