| Isa. 22:1 |
The burden concerning the valley of vision: What then [troubles] you / That all have gone up to the housetops? |
| Isa. 22:2 |
You who are full of noise, you tumultuous city, / You exultant town, / Your slain were not slain with the sword, / Nor are they dead because of battle. |
| Isa. 22:3 |
All your rulers have fled together; / Apart from the bow they have been captured. / All of you who were found have been captured together, / [Though] they had fled far away. |
| Isa. 22:4 |
Therefore I said, Look away from me! / Let me weep bitterly. / Do not hasten to comfort me / About the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| Isa. 22:5 |
For there is a day of turmoil and trampling down and confusion / With the Lord Jehovah of hosts / In the valley of vision, a breaking down of walls / And crying to the mountains. |
| Isa. 22:6 |
And Elam took up the quiver, / With chariots of men [and] horsemen; / And Kir uncovered the shield. |
| Isa. 22:7 |
Then your choicest valleys / Were full of chariots, / And the horsemen firmly fixed themselves at the gate; |
| Isa. 22:8 |
And he removed the covering of Judah. / And you looked in that day / To the weapons of the Forest House, |
| Isa. 22:9 |
While the breaches of the city of David / You saw to be many. / So you gathered the water of the lower pool; |
| Isa. 22:10 |
And the houses of Jerusalem you counted, / And tore down the houses to fortify the wall. |
| Isa. 22:11 |
Then you made a reservoir between the walls / For the water of the old pool. / But you did not look to its very Maker, / And Him who formed it long ago you did not regard. |
| Isa. 22:12 |
Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hosts / Called [you] in that day / To weeping and to mourning, / To [head] shaving and to wearing sackcloth. |
| Isa. 22:13 |
But now there is gladness and joy, / The slaying of cattle and the slaughtering of sheep, / The eating of meat and the drinking of wine; / Eating and drinking, for tomorrow we die! |
| Isa. 22:14 |
But in my ears Jehovah of hosts revealed [this:] / This iniquity shall by no means be covered for you until you die, / Says the Lord Jehovah of hosts. |
| Isa. 22:15 |
Thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts: / Get up, go to this steward, / To Shebna, who is over the [king's] house, [saying,] |
| Isa. 22:16 |
What are you doing here, and whom do you have here / That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here, / [As] he who has hewn a tomb on the heights, / [As] he who has cut out a resting place for himself in the rock? |
| Isa. 22:17 |
Jehovah soon throws you far away, O mighty one, / And He grasps you firmly; |
| Isa. 22:18 |
He will wind you up tightly; / Like a ball [He will toss] you into a wide land. / There you will die; and there the chariots of your glory / [Will become] the disgrace of the house of your master. |
| Isa. 22:19 |
And I will drive you from your position, / And from your standing He will pull you down. |
| Isa. 22:20 |
And in that day / I will call to My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, |
| Isa. 22:21 |
And I will clothe him with your tunic, / And I will strengthen him with your girding sash, / And I will put your dominion into his hand; / And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem / And to the house of Judah. |
| Isa. 22:22 |
And I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder-- / When he opens, no one will shut; / When he shuts, no one will open. |
| Isa. 22:23 |
And I will drive him as a peg into a sure place, / And he will become a throne of glory for his father's house. |
| Isa. 22:24 |
And they will hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all the smallest vessels, from the bowls to all the jars. |
| Isa. 22:25 |
In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, the peg driven into the sure place will be removed, even cut away, and it will fall; and the burden that was upon it will be cut down; for Jehovah has spoken. |