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ISAIAH ยท Chapter 22
22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What disturbs you now, that
you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
22:2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your
slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
22:3 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.
22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour
not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
22:5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity
by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls,
and of crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and
Kir uncovered the shield.
22:7 And it shall come to pass, that your best valleys shall be full
of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
22:8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you did look in that
day to the armour of the house of the forest.
22:9 All of you have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that
they are many: and all of you gathered together the waters of the lower
pool.
22:10 And all of you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the
houses have all of you broken down to fortify the wall.
22:11 All of you made also a ditch between the two walls for the water
of the old pool: but all of you have not looked unto the maker thereof,
neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
22:12 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and
to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
22:13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep,
eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; in order to morrow
we shall die.
22:14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely
this iniquity shall not be purged from you till all of you die, says the
Lord GOD of hosts.
22:15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer,
even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
22:16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed
you out a tomb here, as he that hews him out a tomb on high, and that graves
an habitation for himself in a rock?
22:17 Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity,
and will surely cover you.
22:18 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.
22:19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall
he pull you down.
22:20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
22:21 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.
22:22 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.
22:23 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.
22:24 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.
22:25 In that day, says the LORD of 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 the LORD has spoken it.
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