Isaiah 22

1The oracle of the Valley of Vision. What is with you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops?

2You filled with uproar, clamorous city, jubilant town; your slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.

3All your rulers fled together; they were bound by archers. All those found in you were bound together, the ones who fled from afar.

4Therefore I said, “Turn from me; I will wail bitterly. Do not bestir yourselves to console me over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”

5For it is a day of tumult, trampling, and bewilderment from the Lord Yahweh of hosts in the Valley of Vision, shattering the walls and shouting to the mountain.

6Elam bore the quiver with men's chariots and horsemen, and Kir bared the shield.

7Your choicest valleys became full of chariots, and the horsemen arrayed themselves at the gate.

8He uncovered Judah's covering, and you looked that day to the weapons in the house of the forest.

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

10You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore down the houses to fortify the wall.

11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker, nor regard him who formed it long ago.

12On that day the Lord Yahweh of armies called for weeping, mourning, baldness, and wearing sackcloth.

13Behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

14Yahweh of hosts revealed it in my ears: “This iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord Yahweh of hosts.

15Thus says the Lord Yahweh of hosts, "Go, come to this steward, to Shebna who is over the house."

16What have you here? Whom have you here, that you have cut a grave for yourself here, as one cutting a grave on high for himself, chiseling a dwelling for himself in the rock?

17Behold, Yahweh will hurl you into a mighty captivity and wrap you tightly.

18He will surely whirl you violently around and toss you like a ball into a spacious land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be, the disgrace of your master's house.

19I will thrust you from your station, and he will overthrow you from your office.

20On that day I will call my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.

21I will dress him in your tunic and your sash, strengthen him, and deliver your rule into his hand; and he will be a father to those dwelling in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

22I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder; he will open, and there will be no one to shut; he will shut, and there will be no one to open.

23I will drive him as a nail into a sure place, and he will be 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, all the small vessels, from the cup vessels to all the pitcher vessels.

25In that day, declares Yahweh of hosts, the nail driven in a reliable place will slip free, be cut down, and fall, and the burden upon it will be severed, for Yahweh has spoken.