Isaiah 22

1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

[the] oracle of [the] valley of Vision what? [is] to you then that you have gone up all of you to the roofs.

2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

Noises - full O city turbulent O town jubilant slain [ones] your not [are] slain of a sword and not [are] dead of battle.

3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

All rulers your they have fled together from a bow they have been captured all found [ones] your they were captured together from a distance they had fled.

4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

There-fore I said look away from me I will show bitterness with weeping may not you insist to comfort me on [the] devastation of [the] daughter of people my.

5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

For a day of consternation and trampling and confusion [belongs] to [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts in [the] valley of vision a breaking down of a wall and a crying out to the mountain.

6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.

And Elam it took up a quiver with chariotry of a man horsemen and Kir it uncovered a shield.

7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.

And it was [the] choicest of valleys your they were full chariotry and the horsemen certainly they took a stand the gate towards.

8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.

And he uncovered [the] covering of Judah and you looked in the day that to [the] weaponry of [the] House of the Forest.

9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

And [the] breaches of [the] city of David you saw that they were many and you gathered [the] waters of the pool lower.

10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

And [the] houses of Jerusalem you counted and you pulled down the houses to fortify the city wall.

11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

And a reservoir - you made between the two walls for [the] water of the pool old and not you looked to [the] [one who] made it and [the] [one who] planned it from distant [time] not you considered.

12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

And he called [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts in the day that for weeping and for wailing and for baldness and for girding of sackcloth.

13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

And there! - joy and gladness they are killing - cattle and they are slaughtering sheep they are eating meat and they are drinking wine we will eat and we will drink for tomorrow we will die.

14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

And he has revealed himself in ears my Yahweh of hosts if it will be atoned for (the iniquity *LA(bh)*) this for you until you will die! he says [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts.

15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

Thus he says [the] Lord Yahweh of hosts come go to the steward this to Shebna who [is] over the house.

16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

What? [belongs] to you here and who? [belongs] to you here that you have dug out for yourself here a tomb digging out high place tomb his cutting in the rock a dwelling for himself.

17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

There! Yahweh [is] about to hurl away you hurling O man and [is] about to grasp you completely.

18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

Certainly he will wind up you a winding a ball to a land broad of both hands there you will die and there [the] chariots of splendor your [will be] [the] disgrace of [the] house of master your.

19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

And I will push you from office your and from post your he will tear down you.

20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:

And it will be in the day that and I will summon servant my Eliakim [the] son of Hilkiah.

21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.

And I will clothe him tunic your and sash your I will make firm on him and authority your I will put in hand his and he will become a father of [the] inhabitant[s] of Jerusalem and of [the] house of Judah.

22 And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.

And I will put [the] key of [the] house of David on shoulder his and he will open and there not [will be one who] shuts and he will shut and there not [will be one who] opens.

23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

And I will drive him a tent peg in a place firm and he will become a seat of honor for [the] house of father his.

24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

And they will hang on him all - [the] honor of [the] house of father his the descendants and the offshoot all [the] vessels of the small from [the] vessels of the bowls and unto all [the] vessels of the jars.

25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.

In the day that [the] utterance of Yahweh of hosts it will be removed the tent peg that was driven in a place firm and it will be cut down and it will fall and it will be cut off the burden which [was] on it for Yahweh he has spoken.