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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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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