Isaiah 22

Judah Will Be Punished

1 This is the divine revelation about the valley of Vision.What’s the matter with you?Why do all of you go up on the roofs?2 You are a city filled with shouting,a town filled with noise and excitement.Your people weren’t killed with swords.Your dead didn’t die in battle.3 All your leaders fled togetherand were captured without their bows and arrows.All those who were found were taken prisonerbefore any of them could get far away.4 That is why I say,“Turn away from meso that I can cry bitterly.Don’t try to comfort mebecause of the destruction brought on my people.”5 The Almighty Lord of Armies has chosen a special day.It will be a day of confusion and tramplingin the valley of Vision,a day of tearing down walls and crying for helpin the mountains.6 Elam takes its quiver of arrows,manned chariots, and horsemen.Kir uncovers its shields.7 Then your fertile valleys will be filled with chariots,and horsemen will stand ready in front of the gate.8 On that day the Lord will remove the defenses of Judah.You will look for weapons in the House of the Forest.t9 You will see how many places in David’s wall are broken.You will store water in the Lower Pool.10 You will count the houses in Jerusalem.You will tear down those houses in order to fortify the walls.11 You will build a reservoir between the two wallsto hold the water of the Old Pool.You didn’t look to Jerusalem’s Maker.You didn’t see the one who formed it long ago.12 On that day the Almighty Lord of Armieswill call for crying and for mourning,for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth.13 Instead, you will rejoice, celebrate,slaughter cattle, and butcher sheep.You will eat meat, drink wine, and say,“Let’s eat and drink because tomorrow we’re going to die.”14 The Lord of Armies revealed this to me: “Certainly, this wrong will not be forgiven even when you die,” says the Almighty Lord of Armies.

Shebna’s Position Will Be Given to Eliakim

15 This is what the Almighty Lord of Armies says:Go to Shebna, the man in charge of the palace, and say to him,16 “What are you doing here?What right do you have to dig a tomb for yourself?What right do you have to cut it out in a prominent place?What right do you have to carve outa resting place for yourself in the rock?17 Look, mighty man!The Lord will throw you out.He will grab you.18 He will wrap you up tightly like a turban.He will throw you far away into another land.There you will die.There your splendid chariots will remain.There you will become a disgrace to your master’s household.19 “I will remove you from your officeand do away with your position.20 When that day comes, I will call my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.21 I will dress him in your linen robeand fasten it with your belt.I will give him your authority,and he will be like a father to those who live in Jerusalemand to the nation of Judah.22 I will place the key of the house of David around his neck.What he opens no one will shut.What he shuts no one will open.23 I will fasten him firmly in place like a peg,and he will be a source of honor for his father’s household.24 They will hang on him the whole weight of his father’s household,descendants and offspring and all the little utensils,from bowls to jars of every kind.”25 The Lord of Armies declares,“On that day the peg which I firmly fastened in place will be removed.It will be cut off and will fall,and everything hanging on it will be destroyed.”The Lord has spoken.

Isaiah 22

1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?2 O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.3 All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.5 For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.6 And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.7 And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.8 And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;10 and ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye brake down the houses to fortify the wall;11 ye 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.12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:13 and 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.14 And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.15 Thus saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say,16 What doest thou here? and whom has thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!17 Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl thee away violently; yea, he will wrap thee up closely.18 He will surely wind thee round and round, and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord’s house.19 And I will thrust thee from thine office; and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:21 and I will cloth him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.22 And 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.23 And 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.24 And 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.25 In that day, saith Jehovah 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 Jehovah hath spoken it.