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Isa.|22:1|-|The burden concerning the |1|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 |a|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 |a|weep bitterly.
Do not hasten to comfort meAbout the destruction of the daughter of my people.
Isa.|22:5|-|For there is a day of |a|turmoil and trampling down and confusionWith the Lord Jehovah of hosts
In the valley of vision, a breaking down of wallsAnd 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 valleysWere |a|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 |a|Forest House,
Isa.|22:9|-|While the breaches of the city of DavidYou saw to be many.
So you gathered the |a|water of the lower pool;
Isa.|22:10|-|And the houses of Jerusalem you counted,And tore down the houses to |a|fortify the wall.
Isa.|22:11|-|Then you made a |a|reservoir between the wallsFor the water of the old pool.
But you did not look to its very |b|Maker,And He who formed it long ago you did not regard.
Isa.|22:12|-|Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hostsCalled you in that day
To weeping and to |a|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;|a|Eating and drinking, for tomorrow we die!
Isa.|22:14|-|But in my ears the Lord 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 hereThat you have hewn a |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 gloryWill 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 dayI will call to My servant |1a|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 |1|father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.
Isa.|22:22|-|And I will set the |1a|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 |1a|peg into a sure place,And he will become a |2|throne of glory for his father’s house.
Isa.|22:24|-|And they will hang upon him all the |1|glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all the smallest vessels, from the |2|bowls to all the jars.
Isa.|22:25|-|In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, the |1|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.
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