Isaiah 22
22
An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem
1#Jer 21:13; Ps 125:2The oracle of the Valley of Vision.
What ails you now,
that you all have gone up to the housetops,
2#Isa 32:13; 23:7 you who were full of noise,
a tumultuous city, a joyous city?
Your slain are not slain with the sword,
nor did they die in battle.
3All your rulers have fled together;
they are captured by the archers.
All of you who were found were taken captive together,
although they had fled from afar.
4#Jer 9:1; Mic 1:8 Therefore, I say, “Look away from me,
I will weep bitterly;
do not try to comfort me
because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5#Isa 10:6; 37:3 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity
by the Lord God of Hosts
in the Valley of Vision,
a breaking down of the walls
and a crying to the mountains.
6#2Ki 16:9; Isa 21:2 Elam took up the quiver
with chariots of men and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.
7Your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8#1Ki 7:2; 10:17 And He shall remove the protection of Judah.
You shall depend in that day
on the weapons of the house of the forest;
9#2Ki 20:20 you have seen also that the breaches
of the City of David are many;
and you gathered together the waters
of the lower pool.
10You have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.
11#2Ki 25:4 You also made a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the old pool.
But you have not looked to its Maker,
nor did you respect Him who fashioned it long ago.
12#Joel 2:17; 1:13 In that day the Lord God of Hosts
called you to weeping and mourning,
and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.
13#Isa 56:12; 1Co 15:32; Lk 17:26–29 Yet, there is joy and gladness,
slaying of oxen and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking wine:
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we may die.”
14#1Sa 3:14; Isa 5:9It was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of Hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord God of Hosts.
15#2Ki 18:18; Isa 36:3Thus says the Lord God of Hosts:
Come, go to this treasurer,
even to Shebna, who is over the royal household, and say:
16#Mt 27:60; 2Ch 16:14 What right do you have here? And whom do you have here
that you have dug out for yourself a tomb here,
as he who hews out for himself a tomb on high,
and who cuts a habitation for himself in a rock?
17Indeed, the Lord is about to hurl you headlong, O man;
He is about to seize you firmly.
18#Isa 17:13 He will surely violently turn
and toss you like a ball into a large country;
there you shall die,
and there the chariots of your glory shall be
the shame of your lord’s house.
19#Job 40:11–12; Eze 17:24 I will drive you from your office
and pull you down from your station.
20#2Ki 18:18; Isa 36:3In that day I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah. 21#Ge 45:8And I will clothe him with your robe and tie him securely with your sash. And I will entrust him with your authority, and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22#Job 12:14; Rev 3:7The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder. Then he shall open, and no one shall shut. And he shall shut, and no one shall open. 23#1Sa 2:8; Ezr 9:8I will fasten him as a nail in a firm place, and he shall become a glorious throne to his father’s house. 24They shall hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the bowls to all the jars.
25#Isa 46:11; Mic 4:4In that day, says the Lord of Hosts, the nail that is fastened in the firm place shall be removed, and be cut down and fall. And the load that was on it shall be cut off, for the Lord has spoken it.
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Isaiah 22
22
The Valley of Vision
1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision:
What ails you now,
that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
2O city of commotion,
O town of revelry?
Your slain did not die by the sword,
nor were they killed in battle.
3All your rulers have fled together,
captured without a bow.
All your fugitives were captured together,
having fled to a distant place.
4Therefore I said,
“Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly!
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day
of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—
of breaking down the walls
and crying to the mountains.
6Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen,
and Kir uncovers the shield.
7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the gates.
8He has uncovered
the defenses of Judah.
On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest. 9You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool. 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall. 11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts
called for weeping and wailing,
for shaven heads
and the wearing of sackcloth.
13But look, there is joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”#22:13 Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:32
14The Lord of Hosts has revealed in my hearing:
“Until your dying day,
this sin of yours will never be atoned for,”
says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
A Message for Shebna
15This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: 16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
17Look, O mighty man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master. 19I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.
20On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.#22:22 See Revelation 3:7. 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
24So they will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
25In that day, declares the Lord of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.”
Indeed, the Lord has spoken.
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