Isaiah 22
1 The burden of the Valley of Vision: What with you then, that you have gone up, all of you, to the rooftops,
2 full of noise O city murmuring, O jubilant town? Your slain [are] not those slain [by] the sword, and they were not killed in battle.
3 All your rulers have fled together, without a bow they are bound; all those being found in you are bound together; they have fled far away.
4 Upon thus I said, “Look away from me, let me be bitter; do not hurry in my weeping to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people!”
5 For [it is] a day of tumult and trampling and confusion unto the Lord YHWH of Hosts in the Valley of Vision, digging down a wall and crying to the mountain.
6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of man [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it will come to pass [that] [that] the choicest of your valleys will be full of of chariots, and the horsemen are set diligently at the gate.
8 And He uncovered the screen of Judah. And You looked on that day to the weapons of the House of the Forest.
9 And the breaches of the city of David you⁺ saw, that they were many. And you⁺ gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And the houses of Jerusalem you⁺ numbered, and you⁺ broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11 And you⁺ made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool, and you⁺ did not look to the one who made it, and Him who fashioned it long ago you⁺ did not see.
12 And the Lord YHWH of Hosts called on that day for weeping, and for wailing, and for baldness, and for girding [with] sackcloth.
13 And behold, joy and gladness, slaying of oxen and slaughtering of sheep, the eating of flesh and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14 And it was revealed in my ears [by] YHWH of Hosts: “This iniquity will not be atoned for from you⁺ even until you⁺ die,” says the Lord YHWH of Hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord YHWH of Hosts: “Go, come to this steward, to Shebna who [is] over the house:
16 What [is] unto you here, and who [is] unto you here, that have hewn out for yourself here a tomb, hewing out his tomb [on] high, carving a resting place in the rock for himself?
17 Behold, YHWH is going to hurl you [with] a [great] hurling, and will grasp hold of you [with a firm] grasp, O strong one;
18 He will wind you round and round, tossing [you] like a ball into a land broad of sides; you will die there, and there the chariots of your glory will be the shame of the house of your master!
19 And I will thrust you from your station, and one will throw you down from your position.
20 And it will be on that day, I will call My servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah,
21 and I will clothe him with your tunic and strengthen him with your sash, and I will give your rule into his hand; and He will be as a father to those dwelling in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 And I will place the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And he will open, and no one is shutting; and he will shut, and no one is opening.
23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a place [that] is firm, and he will become as a throne of glory to the house of his father.
24 And they will hang on him all the glory of the house of his father—the offspring and the posterity, [and] all the vessels of small [size], from all the cups, and unto all the vessels of jars.
25 In that day, a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, the peg that is fastened will give way, into a firm place, it will be sheared off, and fall, and the burden that [was] on it will be cut off,” for YHWH has spoken.