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Isaiah
Chapter 22
1 The burden of the valley of vision.
What
ails you now,
that
you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
2
You that are full of stirs,
a
tumultuous city, a joyous city.
Your
slain men are not slain with the sword,
nor
dead in battle.
3
All your rulers are fled together,
they
are bound by the archers.
All
that are found in you are bound together,
which
have fled from far.
4
Therefore said I,
"Look
away from me.
I
will weep bitterly,
labor
not to comfort me,
because
of the spoiling of the daughter of My people."
5``
For it is a day of trouble,
and
of treading down,
and
of perplexity by the Lord/'Adonay
God/Jehovah
of the armies/hosts
in
the valley of vision,
breaking
down the walls,
and
of crying to the mountains.
6
And Elam bare the quiver
with
chariots of men and horsemen,
and
Kir uncovered the shield.
7
And it shall come to pass,
that
your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and
the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8
And he discovered the covering of Judah,
and
you did look
in
that day
to
the armor of the house of the forest.
9
You have seen also the breaches of the city of David,
that
they are many.
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10
And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
and
the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall.
11
You made also a ditch between the two walls
for
the water of the old pool.
But
you have not looked unto the Maker thereof,
neither
had respect unto Him Who fashioned it long ago.
12``
And in that day
did
the Lord/'Adonay
God/Jehovah
of the armies/hosts
call
to weeping, and to mourning,
and
to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
13
And behold joy and gladness,
slaying
oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine.
Let us eat and drink.
For tomorrow we shall die.
14``
And it was revealed in my ears
by
Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
"Surely
this 'punishment for sin'/iniquity {`avon}
shall
not be purged from you till you die,"
said
the Lord/'Adonay
God/Jehovah
of the armies/hosts.
15``
Thus said the Lord/'Adonay
God/Jehovah
of the armies/hosts,
"Go,
get you unto this treasurer,
even
unto Shebna, which is over the house,
and
say, 16
'What
have you here?
And whom has you here?
That
you have hewed you out a sepulcher here,
as
he who hews him out a sepulcher on high,
and
that graves an habitation for himself in a rock?"
17
Behold, Jehovah/God will carry you away
with
a mighty captivity,
and
will surely cover you.
18
He will surely violently turn and toss you
like
a ball into a large country.
There
shall you die,
and
there the chariots of your glory
shall
be the shame of your lord's house.
19
And I will drive you from your station,
and
from your state shall he pull you down.
20
And it shall come to pass
in
that day,
that
I will call my servant Eliakim,
the
son of Hilkiah.
21
And I will clothe him with your robe,
and
strengthen him with your girdle,
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
And the key of the house of David
will
I lay upon his shoulder.
So he shall open, and none shall shut.
And he shall shut, and none shall open.
23
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place
and
he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24
And they shall hang upon him
all
the glory of his father's house,
the
offspring and the issue,
all
vessels of small quantity,
from
the vessels of cups,
even
to all the vessels of flagons.
25
"In that day",
said
Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
"shall
the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed,
and
be cut down, and fall.
And
the burden that was upon it
shall
be cut off . . .
for
Jehovah/God has spoken it."
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