Isaiah 22
22
An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem
1The #See ch. 13:1 oracle concerning #ver. 5; Jer. 21:13; [Joel 3:12, 14]the valley of vision.
What do you mean that you have gone up,
all of you, to the housetops,
2you who are full of shoutings,
tumultuous city, #ch. 32:13 exultant town?
Your slain are #Lam. 4:9not slain with the sword
or dead in battle.
3 # [ch. 1:10] All your leaders have fled together;
without the bow they were captured.
All of you who were found were captured,
though they had fled far away.
4Therefore I said:
“Look away from me;
#
Jer. 9:1; Mic. 1:8 let me weep bitter tears;
do not labor to comfort me
concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 # ch. 2:12-17 For the Lord God of hosts has #[ch. 37:3] a day
of tumult and #ch. 10:6; 18:2 trampling and #Mic. 7:4 confusion
in #[See ver. 1 above]the valley of vision,
a battering down of walls
and a shouting to the mountains.
6And #See ch. 11:11 Elam bore the quiver
with chariots and horsemen,
and #2 Kgs. 16:9Kir uncovered the shield.
7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
8He has taken away #ch. 30:1 the covering of Judah.
In that day you looked to #1 Kgs. 10:17the weapons of the House of the Forest, 9and you saw that #ver. 5, 10; [2 Chr. 32:5] the breaches of the city of David were many. #[Neh. 3:16]You collected the waters of the lower pool, 10and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. 11#[See ver. 9 above] You made a reservoir between #[2 Kgs. 25:4] the two walls for the water of #[ch. 7:3; 2 Kgs. 20:20; 2 Chr. 32:3, 4] the old pool. But #[ch. 5:12]you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
12In that day #[Joel 2:17] the Lord God of hosts
called for weeping and mourning,
for #See ch. 3:24 baldness and #See 2 Sam. 3:31wearing sackcloth;
13and behold, joy and gladness,
killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
eating flesh and drinking wine.
# ch. 56:12; Cited 1 Cor. 15:32 “Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
14The Lord of hosts #ch. 5:9 has revealed himself in my ears:
“Surely #[ch. 27:9; 1 Sam. 3:14] this iniquity will not be atoned for you #[ver. 13]until you die,”
says the Lord God of hosts.
15Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to #ch. 36:3, 11, 22; 37:2; 2 Kgs. 18:18, 26, 37; 19:2Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: 16What have you to do here, and whom have you here, #2 Chr. 16:14 that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you #Matt. 27:60who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? 17Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. #[Dan. 3:21]He will seize firm hold on you 18and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be #[ch. 36:9]your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. 19#[ver. 25]I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. 20In that day I will call my servant #ch. 36:3; 37:2; 2 Kgs. 18:18, 26, 37; 19:2Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21and #[See ver. 20 above] I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be #Gen. 45:8a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22And I will place #ch. 9:6 on his shoulder #Rev. 3:7 the key of the house of David. #[Job 12:14]He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23And I will fasten him #[ch. 33:20; 54:2; Eccles. 12:11] like a peg in a secure place, and he will become #[Rev. 3:21]a throne of honor to his father’s house. 24And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. 25In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, #[See ver. 23 above]the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.”
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 22
22
1The message concerning the Valley of Vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the house-tops,
2you who are filled with turmoils, a noisy city, a city of revelry? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor the dead in battle.
3All your rulers have fled together; without a bow they were taken captive. All who are found in you are bound together, who have fled from afar.
4Therefore I said, “Look away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me because of the ravaging of the daughter of my people.”
5For it is a day of uproar and treading down and perplexity by the Master יהוה of hosts in the Valley of Vision – breaking down of a wall and of crying to the mountain.
6And Ěylam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Qir bared the shield.
7And it shall be that your choicest valleys shall be filled with chariots, and the horsemen shall take up positions at the gate.
8Then He removed the covering of Yehuḏah. And you looked in that day to the weapons of the House of the Forest.
9And you saw the breaches of the city of Dawiḏ, that it was great. And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10And you counted the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses you broke down to strengthen the wall.
11And you dug a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you have not looked to its Maker, nor have you seen Him who fashioned it long ago.
12And in that day the Master יהוה of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13Then see! Joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaying sheep, eating meat and drinking wine, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14And it was revealed in my hearing by יהוה of hosts, “For this crookedness shall certainly not be pardoned until you die,” said the Master יהוה of hosts.
15Thus said the Master יהוה of hosts, “Go, come to this steward, to Sheḇnah, who is over the house, and say,
16What have you here, and whom have you here, that you have hewn a burial-site here, as he who hews himself a burial-site on high, inscribing#Engraving. a resting place for himself in a rock?
17See, יהוה is hurling you away, O man, and is firmly grasping you,
18rolling you up tightly like a ball, into a wide land. There you are to die, and there your esteemed chariots are to be the shame of your master’s house.
19And I shall drive you from your office, and you shall be ousted from your position.
20And it shall be in that day, that I shall call My servant Elyaqim son of Ḥilqiyahu.
21And I shall put your robe on him, and strengthen him with your girdle, and give your authority into his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehuḏah.
22And I shall place the key of the house of Dawiḏ on his shoulder. And he shall open, and no one shuts; and shall shut, and no one opens.
23And I shall fasten him like a peg in a steadfast place, and he shall become a throne of esteem to his father’s house.
24And they shall hang on him all the weight of his father’s house, the offspring and the offshoots, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the jars.
25In that day,’ declares יהוה of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the steadfast place shall be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it shall be cut off. For יהוה has spoken.’ ”
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