Isaiah 22:1-19 ▼

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.