Isaiah 22

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1 The burden of the valley of vision. --What Is with thee, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 City noisy, joyous city! Thy slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle;
3 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers; All you have found bound together, which have fled from far.
4 Therefore I say: leave me, I will weep bitterly; not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5 For the day of trouble, and of trampling and confusion in the valley of vision from the Lord God of hosts. Breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bears the quiver; men on chariots, [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.
7 And now, thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen lined up against the gate,

8 and remove the cover from the Jews; and you're in that day to look at the armor of the house of the forest.
9 But you can see that many breaches of the city of David, and gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
10 and the houses of Jerusalem, and destroy the houses to fortify the wall;
eleven and a ditch between the two walls for the waters of the old pool. And to Him who does not look down, and do not look upon Him, it long ago.
12 And the Lord, the Lord of hosts called in that day, to weeping and mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth.
13 But, the fun and joy! Slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: `Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die! '
14 And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts will not be forgiven you this wickedness till you die, saith the Lord of hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Go, Go unto this treasurer, to Shebna, the chief of the palace [and tell him]:
16 that you have here, and who you are, what you are carving themselves a tomb? --It Cuts himself tomb on a hill, cut down in a rock dwelling itself.
17 Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty man, and will surely cover thee to whom;
18 turning you into a bundle, you will throw the sword into a large country; there you will die, and there the chariots of thine be the shame of thy lord's house.
19 And I will drive thee from thy station, and I will bring you to your degree.
20 And in that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key to the house of David will put his shoulders; he opens, and no ban; ban it, and no one opens.
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.
24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the children and grandchildren, all household items to the latest musical instruments.
25 On that day, says the LORD of hosts, shatter nail fastened in a sure place, and will be knocked out, and fall, and break up the whole weight that is therein: for the Lord says.

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