Isaiah 22
World English Bible - Isaiah 22 << | >> 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960616263646566 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? 22:2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. 22:3 All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off. 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don`t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 22:5 For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. 22:6 Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 22:7 It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 22:8 He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. 22:9 You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool; 22:10 and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall; 22:11 you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn`t look to him who had done this, neither had you respect to him who purposed it long ago. 22:12 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 22:13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 22:14 Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. 22:15 Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, [and say], 22:16 "What do you here? and whom has you here, that you have hewed you out here a tomb? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!" 22:17 Behold, Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely. 22:18 He will surely wind you round and round, [and toss you] like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord`s house. 22:19 I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled down. 22:20 It shall happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 22:21 and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22:22 The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 22:23 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 They shall hang on him all the glory of his father`s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. 22:25 In that day, says Yahweh 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 on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it.