22:5 For my Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, has in store a day of commotion and trampling and riot in the Arena of Spectacles, [a day] of battering down walls, and of crying in distress, To the mountains!
The "day" Jehovah has "in store" for the fans at entertainments consists of a bizarre version of the performances they used to watch. Reminiscent of devotees' lack of restraint at events in the Arena of Spectacles, people abandon self-control in a headlong melee as they attempt to escape the enemy. With invaders breaking through their defenses, the mountains promise the only remaining refuge. Instead of evading capture by the enemy-by repenting in time and participating in the new exodus to Zion-they face fear, deprivation, and death: the full measure of covenant curses that is due the wicked.
22:6-8 When Elam takes up the quiver, and horses are harnessed to the chariots of Aram, and Kir uncovers the armor, then shall your choice valleys fill with chariots, and cavalry take up positions at your gateways. And in the day Judea's defensive screen is removed, you will look to the forest home as protection.
Assyria's alliance of nations, each with its military specialty, makes up a formidable force: "Their arrows are sharp; all their bows are strung. The tread of their warhorses resembles flint; their chariot wheels revolve like a whirlwind" (Isaiah 5:28). As in the allegory of the vineyard, the enemy penetrates and occupies Jehovah's people's land: "I will have its hedge removed and let it be burned; I will have its wall broken through and let it be trampled. I will make it a desolation" (Isaiah 5:5-6). Once defenses are breached, Jehovah's unrepentant people seek places of resort in the woods (cf. Isaiah 8:22).
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