Isaiah 22

Oracle against Jerusalem

1The oracle of the valley of vision:

What business do you have going up, all of you, to the roofs,

2noisy, tumultuous city,[#Literally “full of noises”]

Your slain are not slain by the sword,

3All of your rulers have fled together without a bow;

They were captured together;

4Therefore I said,

“Look away from me,

you must not insist on comforting me

5For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision,[#These three Hebrew words are alliterative: mehûmâûmeḇûsâûmeḇûḵâ]

6And Elam lifted up the quiver,

7And this happened:

the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots,

And you looked, on that day, to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

10And you counted the houses of Jerusalem,

but you did not look to its maker,

12And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day

for weeping and mourning,

13But look! Joy and gladness,

the eating of meat and the drinking of wine!

14And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts:

“Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!”

says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle regarding Shebna

15The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this:

“Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna,

16‘What business do you have here,[#Literally “to you”]

that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself,

17Look! Yahweh is about to really hurl you, man![#Literally “hurl a hurling”]

There you shall die,

19And I will push you from your office,

20And this shall happen:

On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah,

and I will bind your sash firmly about him,

and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

22And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder,

23And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place,

24And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father’s house on him,

all of the small vessels,

25On that day, declares Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.’ ”[#Literally “declaration of”]

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