Isaiah 22
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Vision of Jerusalem’s Catastrophe
1The burden of the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now? For you have gone up to the rooftops.
2You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3All your rulers have fled together, then captured without a bow. All who were caught were taken into exile together, though they had fled far off.
4Therefore I said, “Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly— don’t try to comfort me about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”
5For my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot has a day of panic, trampling and confusion— in the Valley of Vision— of tearing down a wall, a catastrophe on the mountain.
6Elam took up the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7So it will come to pass that your choicest valleys will be full of chariots and horsemen posted at the gate.
8So He will expose Judah’s defense, and in that day you will look for the armor in the Forest House.
9Then you will see the breaches in the walls of the city of David—for they will be many—though you collect the water of the lower pool.
10Though you counted the houses of Jerusalem, you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11You even made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool—but you did not look to the Maker, or consider the One who planned it long before.
12Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.
13But instead, there is joy and gladness, slaughtering cattle and killing sheep, meat and drinking wine! “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die!”
14But Adonai-Tzva’ot revealed in my ears: “Surely this sin will not be atoned for until you die,” says my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.
15Thus says my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Go, say to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house:
16‘What are you doing here, and who are you to be here, that you cut out a grave for yourself, carving out a tomb on the height, chiseling a crypt for yourself in the rock?
17Behold, strong man, Adonai is about to hurl you headlong, and seize you firmly.
18He will roll you up tightly and toss you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and your glorious chariots will be the shame of your Master’s house.
19I will remove you from your post, and pull you down from your station.
20“In that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.
21I will clothe him in your robe and fasten your sash on him. I will give your authority into his hands, so he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder—what he opens, no one can shut; what he shuts, and no one can open.
23I will fasten him as a peg in a firm place, and he will be a throne of honor to his father’s house.
24They will hang all the glory of his father’s house on him—offspring and posterity, all the small vessels, from bowls to all the jars.
25“In that day,” says Adonai-Tzva’ot, “the peg that was fastened in a firm place will give way, break away and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off.” For Adonai has spoken.
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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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