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 

biblegateway Isa 22:4

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."

Therefore I said, "Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly! Do not try to comfort me about the destruction of my dear people."

That is why I say, "Turn away from me so that I can cry bitterly. Don’t try to comfort me because of the destruction brought on my people."

biblegateway Isa 22:4

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 said: "Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people."

bibleoremus Isa 22:4

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.

That is why I said: Turn your eyes away from me; leave me to weep in misery. Do not press consolation on me for the ruin of my people.

biblegateway Isa 22:4

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."

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.

biblegateway Isa 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 

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.