Isaiah 22:4

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 

Therefore I said, "Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people."

Therefore I say, "Turn your eyes away from me, Let me weep bitterly, Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Leave me alone to weep; do not try to comfort me. Let me cry for my people as I watch them being destroyed.

In the midst of the shouting, I said, "Let me alone. Let me grieve by myself. Don't tell me it's going to be all right. These people are doomed. It's not all right."

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.

Therefore I said: Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not try to comfort me for the destruction of my beloved people.

Therefore I said, "Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people."

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 

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.