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”]