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| 1The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, | 1This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops, |
| 2you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle. | 2O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle. |
| 3All your leaders have fled together; without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away. | 3All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place. |
| 4Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.” | 4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.” |
| 5For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains. | 5For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains. |
| 6And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. | 6Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield. |
| 7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates. | 7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates. |
| 8He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, | 8He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest. |
| 9and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, | 9You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool. |
| 10and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. | 10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall. |
| 11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago. | 11You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago. |
| 12In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth; | 12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth. |
| 13and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” | 13But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” |
| 14The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts. | 14The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts. |
| 15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: | 15This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: |
| 16What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? | 16What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock? |
| 17Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you | 17Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, |
| 18and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. | 18roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master. |
| 19I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. | 19I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position. |
| 20In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, | 20On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. |
| 21and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. | 21I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. |
| 22And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. | 22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. |
| 23And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house. | 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father. |
| 24And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons. | 24So they will hang on him the whole burden of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar. |
| 25In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken.” | 25In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken. |
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