Isaiah 22

1 This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

2 O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.

4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.

5 For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision— of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.

6 Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.

And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.

7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.

And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.

8 He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.

And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.

9 You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.

And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,

10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.

And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.

11 You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.

And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.

12 On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13 But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,”

And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

15 This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:

Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:

16 What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?

What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

17 Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,

Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.

18 roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.

He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.

19 I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.

And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.

20 On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,

21 I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.

22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.

And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.

And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.

24 So they will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.

25 In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.

In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.