Discovery BoxIsaiah 22:4 
Context22:4 So I say:
“Don’t look at me! 1
I am weeping bitterly.
Don’t try 2 to console me
concerning the destruction of my defenseless people.” 3
Isaiah 22:12
Context22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,
for shaved heads and sackcloth. 4
1 tn Heb “look away from me” (so KJV, ASV, NRSV).
2 tn Heb “don’t hurry” (so NCV).
3 tn Heb “the daughter of my people.” “Daughter” is here used metaphorically to express the speaker’s emotional attachment to his people, as well as their vulnerability and weakness.
4 tn Heb “for baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.” See the note at 15:2.
