Isaiah 22
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CHAPTER 22
1The burden of the valley of vision. What also is to thee, for and all thou ascendedest [or wentest up] into [the] roofs,
2thou full of cry, a city of much people, a city full out joying? thy slain men were not slain by sword, neither thy dead men were dead in battle.
3All thy princes fled together, and were bound hard; all that were found, were bound together, they fled far.
4Therefore I said, Go ye away from me, I shall weep bitterly; do not ye be busy to comfort me on the destroying of the daughter of my people.
5For why a day of slaying, and of defouling, and of weepings, is ordained of the Lord God of hosts, in the valley of vision; and he searcheth the wall, and is worshipful on the hill [or the mountain].
6And Elam took an arrow case, or a quiver, and the chariot of an horseman; and the shield made naked the wall.
7And thy chosen valleys, Jerusalem, shall be full of carts; and knights shall put their seats in the gate.
8And the covering of Judah shall be showed; and thou shalt see in that day the place of armours of the house of the forest;
9and ye shall see the crazings of the city of David, for those be multiplied. Ye gathered together the waters of the lower cistern,
10and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye destroyed [the] houses, to make strong the wall;
11and ye made a pit betwixt two walls, and ye restored the water of the eld [or old] cistern; and ye beheld not to him, that made that Jerusalem, and ye saw not the worker thereof afar.
12And the Lord of hosts shall call in that day to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to a girdle of sackcloth;
13and lo! joy and gladness is to slay calves, and to strangle wethers, to eat flesh, and to drink wine; eat we, and drink we, for we shall die tomorrow.
14And the voice of the Lord of hosts is showed in mine ears, This wicked-ness shall not be forgiven to you, till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
15The Lord God of hosts saith these things, Go thou, and enter to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Shebna, the sovereign of the temple; and thou shalt say to him,
16What thou here, either as who here? for thou hast hewed [out] to thee a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed a memorial in high place diligently, a tabernacle in a stone to thee.
17Lo! the Lord shall make thee to be borne out, as a capon is borne out, and as a cloth, so he shall raise thee.
18He crowning shall crown thee with tribulation; he shall send thee as a ball into a large land and wide; there thou shalt die, and there shall be the chariot of thy glory, and the shame of the house of thy Lord.
19And I shall cast thee out of thy standing, and I shall put thee down of thy service.
20And it shall be, in that day I shall call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah;
21and I shall clothe him in thy coat, and I shall comfort him with thy girdle, and I shall give thy power into the hands of him; and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jeru-salem, and to the house of Judah.
22And I shall give the key of the house of David on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall be that shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall be that shall open.
23And I shall set him a stake, either a perch, in a faithful place, and he shall be into a seat of glory of the house of his father.
24And thou shalt hang on him all the glory of the house of his father, diverse kinds of vessels, each little vessel, from the vessels of cups, till to each vessel of musics.
25In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, the stake that was set [or fixed] in the faithful place, shall be taken away, and it shall be broken, and shall fall down; and shall perish that hanged therein, for the Lord spake.
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Isaiah 22
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A Pronouncement against Jerusalem
1A pronouncement#Is 13:1 concerning the Valley of Vision:#Ps 125:2; Jr 21:13; Jl 3:12,14
What’s the matter with you?
Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?#Is 15:3
2The noisy city, the jubilant town,#Is 23:7; 32:13
is filled with celebration.
Your dead did not die by the sword;
they were not killed in battle.
3All your rulers have fled together,
captured without a bow.
All your fugitives were captured together;
they had fled far away.
4Therefore I said,
“Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly!#Is 15:3; 33:7; Jr 9:1; Zch 12:10
Do not try to comfort me
about the destruction of my dear#22:4 Lit of the daughter of my people.”
5For the Lord God of Armies
had a day of tumult, trampling, and confusion#Is 10:6; 37:3; 63:3
in the Valley of Vision —
people shouting#22:5 Or Vision — a tearing down of a wall, or Vision — Kir raged; Hb obscure and crying to the mountains;
6Elam took up a quiver
with chariots and horsemen,#22:6 Lit chariots of man
and Kir#2Kg 16:9; Am 1:5; 9:7 uncovered the shield.
7Your best valleys were full of chariots,
and horsemen were positioned at the city gates.
8He removed the defenses of Judah.
On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.#1Kg 7:2; 10:17 9You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David.#Lk 2:4 You collected water from the lower pool.#2Kg 20:20; Neh 3:16 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem so that you could tear them down to fortify the wall. 11You made a reservoir between the walls#2Kg 25:4; Jr 39:4 for the water of the ancient pool,#2Kg 20:20; 2Ch 32:3–4 but you did not look to the one who made it, or consider the one who created it long ago.
12On that day the Lord God of Armies
called for weeping,#Is 32:11; Jl 1:13; 2:17 for wailing, for shaven heads,
and for the wearing of sackcloth.
13But look: joy and gladness,
butchering of cattle, slaughtering of sheep and goats,
eating of meat, and drinking of wine —
“Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” #Is 56:12; 1Co 15:32
14The Lord of Armies has directly revealed to me:#Is 5:9
“This iniquity will not be wiped out for you people as long as you live.”#22:14 Lit for you until you die#1Sm 3:14; Ezk 24:13
The Lord God of Armies has spoken.
A Pronouncement against Shebna
15The Lord God of Armies said, “Go to Shebna,#2Kg 18:18,26,37; Is 36:3,11,22; 37:2 that steward who is in charge of the palace, and say to him: 16What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a resting place for yourself out of rock?#2Sm 18:18; 2Ch 16:14; Mt 27:60 17Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.#22:17–18 Hb obscure There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be — a disgrace to the house of your lord. 19I will remove you from your office; you will be ousted from your position.
20“On that day I will call for my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.#2Kg 18:18; Is 36:3,22; 37:2 21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will hand your authority over to him, and he will be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.#Gn 45:8; Jb 29:16 22I will place the key#Mt 16:19; Rv 3:7 of the house of David on his shoulder; what he opens, no one can close; what he closes, no one can open.#Jb 12:14 23I will drive him, like a peg, into a firm place. He will be a throne of honor for his father’s family. 24They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s family: the descendants and the offshoots — all the small vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar. 25On that day” — the declaration of the Lord of Armies — “the peg that was driven into a firm place will give way, be cut off, and fall, and the load on it will be destroyed.” Indeed, the Lord has spoken.
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