Isaiah 22
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1A message about the Valley of Vision (Jerusalem). What's happening? Why has everyone gone up onto the rooftops? 2There are shouts and commotion all over the city with people celebrating.
Your dead weren't killed by the sword or in battle.#22:2. A criticism of the people of Jerusalem who were not fighting the invaders. 3All your leaders ran away together; they were captured without resistance. All your people trying to escape were captured together, even though they had run a long way away.
4That's why I said, “Go away! Let me mourn in peace. Don't insist on comforting me as the daughter of my people#22:4. “Daughter of my people”: probably a reference to Jerusalem. The “ruining” was not the destruction of Jerusalem at the time of Sennacherib's attack, but the huge amount of money and other valuable gifts Hezekiah gave him to “buy him off.” See 2 Kings 18:15-16. is ruined.”
5For the Lord has a day of defeat, of panic and confusion in the Valley of Vision, a day of tearing down walls and crying for help to the mountains.
6The Elamites pick up their quivers full of arrows, and prepare their chariots and horsemen, while the people of Kir uncover their shields ready for battle.#22:6. “Ready for battle”: supplied for clarity. 7Your most productive valleys are now full of enemy chariots; and their cavalry are at your gates! 8Judah's defenses have been stripped away and so at that time you went looking for weapons in the Palace of the Forest.#22:8. “The Palace of the Forest”: “The Palace of the Forest of Lebanon” made by Solomon. See 1 Kings 10:17, 1 Kings 10:21; 14:27-28.
9You examined the breaks in the walls of the City of David and found there were many. You had water collect in the lower pool. 10Your reviewed the number of houses in the city and demolished some to provide stone#22:10. “To provide stone”: supplied for clarity. to repair the walls. 11You built a reservoir inside the walls for the waters from the old pool, but you did not respect its Maker or think about the One who planned it long ago.
12At that time the Lord, the Lord Almighty, was calling you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth. 13Instead, you go on happily partying! You slaughter cattle and sheep so you can have your feasts, eating meat and drinking wine, saying, “Let's eat and drink, because we're going to die tomorrow!”
14The Lord Almighty has made this clear to me: “I will not forgive this sin till your dying day, says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.”
15This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, told me to do. “Go to Shebna, the palace manager, and give him this message: 16‘What are you doing here? Who do you think you are, cutting out a tomb for yourself high up on a hill, carving out for yourself a place to rest? 17Watch out, you great man! The Lord is about to grab you and violently toss you aside. 18He's going to roll you up into a ball, and throw you far away into a vast country.#22:18. “Vast country”: literally, “a broad-handed land.” You will die there, and that's where the chariots you were so proud of will remain. You're a disgrace to your lord's royal family. 19I#22:19. Referring to the Lord. will push you out of office, I will strip you of your position.
20After that I will call for my servant, Eliakim, son of Hilkiah. 21I will put your robe and place your sash around him, and I will give your authority to him. He will be a father to the people living in Jerusalem and Judah. 22I will give him the key to the house of David.#22:22. “House of David” this could refer both the palace and to David's descendants. What he opens, nobody can shut; what he shuts, nobody can open. 23I will drive him like a nail hammered securely into a wall. He will bring honor to his family.
24The heavy burden of his father's family will hang on him—all the descendants and the inlaws—all the little containers, bowls and all kinds of jars. 25So the time will come, declares the Lord Almighty, when the nail will come out of the wall, even though it was hammered in securely. It will break off and fall down, and everything hanging on it will fall down too. The Lord has spoken.’”
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Isaiah 22
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Proclamation Against Jerusalem
1The burden against the Valley of Vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,
2You who are full of noise,
A tumultuous city, #Is. 32:13a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.
3All your rulers have fled together;
They are captured by the archers.
All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar.
4Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
#Jer. 4:19I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”
5#Is. 37:3For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
#Lam. 1:5; 2:2By the Lord God of hosts
In the Valley of Vision—
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.
6#Jer. 49:35Elam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And #Is. 15:1Kir uncovered the shield.
7It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys
Shall be full of chariots,
And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8#2 Kin. 18:15, 16He removed the protection of Judah.
You looked in that day to the armor #1 Kin. 7:2; 10:17of the House of the Forest;
9#2 Kin. 20:20; 2 Chr. 32:4; Neh. 3:16You also saw the damage to the city of David,
That it was great;
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall.
11#Neh. 3:16You also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old #2 Kin. 20:20; 2 Chr. 32:3, 4pool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.
12And in that day the Lord God of hosts
#Is. 32:11; Joel 1:13; 2:17Called for weeping and for mourning,
#Ezra 9:3; Is. 15:2; Mic. 1:16For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and #Is. 5:11, 22; 28:7, 8; Luke 17:26–29drinking wine:
#Is. 56:12; 1 Cor. 15:32“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14#Is. 5:9Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,
“Surely for this iniquity there #1 Sam. 3:14; Ezek. 24:13will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.
The Judgment on Shebna
15Thus says the Lord God of hosts:
“Go, proceed to this steward,
To #2 Kin. 18:37; Is. 36:3Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
16‘What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he #2 Sam. 18:18; 2 Chr. 16:14; Matt. 27:60who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?
17Indeed, the Lord will throw you away violently,
O mighty man,
#Esth. 7:8And will surely seize you.
18He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there #Is. 2:7your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master’s house.
19So I will drive you out of your office,
And from your position he will pull you down.
20‘Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant #2 Kin. 18:18; Is. 36:3, 22; 37:2Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;
21I will clothe him with your robe
And strengthen him with your belt;
I will commit your responsibility into his hand.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.
22The key of the house of David
I will lay on his #Is. 9:6shoulder;
So he shall #Job 12:14; Rev. 3:7open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
23I will fasten him as #Ezra 9:8; Zech. 10:4a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24‘They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers. 25In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the Lord has spoken.’ ”
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