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Isaiah 22

¹The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? ²O you that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. ³All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off. ⁴Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ⁵For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, YHWH of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. ⁶And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. ⁷And it came to pass, that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. ⁸And he took away the covering of Judah; and you didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. ⁹And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool; ¹⁰and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall; ¹¹ye made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But ye looked not unto him that had done this, neither had ye respect unto him that purposed it long ago. ¹²And in that day did the Lord, YHWH of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: ¹³and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die. ¹⁴And YHWH of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, YHWH of hosts. ¹⁵Thus saith the Lord, YHWH of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say], ¹⁶What doest you here? and whom has you here, that you hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock! ¹⁷Behold, Jehovah, like a [strong] man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely. ¹⁸He will surely wind thee round and round, [and toss thee] like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord's house. ¹⁹And I will thrust thee from yours office; and from thy station shall you be pulled down. ²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: ²¹and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. ²²And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. ²³And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house. ²⁴And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons. ²⁵In that day, saith YHWH of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for YHWH hath spoken it.

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