¹The burden of the valley of vision .

What ails you now , that you have all gone up to the housetops ?

²You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city , a joyous town , your slain are not slain with the sword , neither are they dead in battle .

³All your rulers fled away together . They were bound by the archers . All who were found by you were bound together . They fled far away .

⁴Therefore I said , “Look away from me . I will weep bitterly . Don’t labour to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people .

⁵For it is a day of confusion , and of treading down , and of perplexity from the Lord , GOD of Armies , in the valley of vision , a breaking down of the walls , and a crying to the mountains .”[#22:5 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “”, usually pronounced Yahweh).]

⁶Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen ; and Kir uncovered the shield .

⁷Your choicest valleys were full of chariots , and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate .

⁸He took away the covering of Judah ; and you looked in that day to the armour in the house of the forest .

⁹You saw the breaches of David ’s city , that they were many ; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool .

¹⁰You 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 didn’t look to him who had done this , neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago .

¹²In that day , the Lord , GOD of Armies , called to weeping , to mourning , to baldness , and to dressing in sackcloth ;[#22:12 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “”, usually pronounced Yahweh).]

¹³and behold , there is joy and gladness , killing cattle and killing sheep , eating meat and drinking wine : “Let’s eat and drink , for tomorrow we will die .”

¹⁴The LORD of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die ,” says the Lord , GOD of Armies .[#22:14 When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “”, usually pronounced Yahweh).]

¹⁵The Lord , GOD of Armies says , “Go , get yourself to this treasurer , even to Shebna , who is over the house , and say,

¹⁶‘What are you doing here ? Who has you here , that you have dug out a tomb here ?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high , chiselling a habitation for himself in the rock !”

¹⁷Behold , the LORD will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes , he will grasp you firmly .

¹⁸He will surely wind you around and around , and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die , and there the chariots of your glory will be , you disgrace of your lord’s house .

¹⁹I will thrust you from your office . You will be pulled down from your station .

²⁰It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah ,

²¹and I will clothe him with your robe , and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand ; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem , and to the house of Judah .

²²I will lay the key of David ’s house on his shoulder . He will open , and no one will shut . He will shut , and no one will open .

²³I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place . He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house .

²⁴They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house , the offspring and the issue , every small vessel , from the cups even to all the pitchers .

²⁵“In that day ,” says the LORD of Armies , “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way . It will be cut down and fall . The burden that was on it will be cut off , for the LORD has spoken it .”