Isaiah 22
Darby's Bible - Isaiah 22 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 22:2 Thou that wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 22:3 All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners without the bow: all that are found of thee are made prisoners together; they were fleeing far off. 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; [a day of] breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountain: 22:6 -- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield. 22:7 And it shall come to pass [that] thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 22:8 And he uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest; 22:9 and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool; 22:10 and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have broken down the houses to fortify the wall; 22:11 and ye have made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not had regard unto the maker thereof, neither have ye looked unto him that fashioned it long ago. 22:12 And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 22:13 and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die. 22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts: Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts. 22:15 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, [and say,] 22:16 What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself? 22:17 Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty man, and will cover thee entirely. 22:18 Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord`s house! 22:19 And I will drive thee from thine office, and from thy station will I pull thee down. 22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkijah; 22:21 and I will clothe 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. 22:22 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. 22:23 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: 22:24 and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father`s house, the offspring and the issue, all the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons. 22:25 In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for Jehovah hath spoken.