| New King James Version | English Standard Version |
| 1The burden against the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops, | 1The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, |
| 2You who are full of noise, A tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain men are not slain with the sword, Nor dead in battle. | 2you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle. |
| 3All your rulers have fled together; They are captured by the archers. All who are found in you are bound together; They have fled from afar. | 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. |
| 4Therefore I said, “Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.” | 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.” |
| 5For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord GOD of hosts In the Valley of Vision— Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain. | 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. |
| 6Elam bore the quiver With chariots of men and horsemen, And Kir uncovered the shield. | 6And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. |
| 7It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys Shall be full of chariots, And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. | 7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates. |
| 8He removed the protection of Judah. You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest; | 8He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, |
| 9You also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great; And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. | 9and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, |
| 10You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall. | 10and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall. |
| 11You also made a reservoir between the two walls For the water of the old pool. But you did not look to its Maker, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago. | 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. |
| 12And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. | 12In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth; |
| 13But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” | 13and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” |
| 14Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, “Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death,” says the Lord GOD of hosts. | 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. |
| 15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: “Go, proceed to this steward, To Shebna, who is over the house, and say: | 15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: |
| 16‘What have you here, and whom have you here, That you have hewn a sepulcher here, As he who hews himself a sepulcher on high, Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock? | 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? |
| 17Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently, O mighty man, And will surely seize you. | 17Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you |
| 18He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball Into a large country; There you shall die, and there your glorious chariots Shall be the shame of your master’s house. | 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. |
| 19So I will drive you out of your office, And from your position he will pull you down. | 19I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. |
| 20‘Then it shall be in that day, That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah; | 20In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, |
| 21I will clothe him with your robe And strengthen him with your belt; I will commit your responsibility into his hand. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem And to the house of Judah. | 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. |
| 22The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open. | 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. |
| 23I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house. | 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. |
| 24‘They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers. | 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. |
| 25In that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken.’ ” | 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.” |
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