Isa 22
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THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that now you are all gone
up to the housetops which help you not?
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The city is filled with shouting men: your slain are not slain with swords, nor are
your dead those who have died in battle.
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All your princes have fled, and your captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men
in you have fled far away.
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Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for
the breach of the daughter of my people.
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For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is
perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander
from the least to the greatest on the mountains.
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And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there
was a gathering for battle.
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And it shall be that your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen
shall block up your gates.
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And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choice
houses of the city.
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And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and
they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into
the city;
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and that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the
city.
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And you procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool:
but you looked not to him whom made it from the beginning, and regarded not him whom
created it.
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And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation,
and Gr. shaving baldness, and for girding with sackcloth:
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but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to
eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die.
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And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall
not be forgiven you, until you die.
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the Or, steward treasurer, and say to him, Why are you here?
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and what have you to do here, that you have here hewn yourself a sepulcher, and made
yourself a sepulcher on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?
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Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and
will take away your robe and your glorious crown,
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and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die: and he
will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden
down.
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And you shall be removed from your stewardship, and from your place.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son
of Chelcias:
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and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I
will give your stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that
dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda.
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And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none
to speak against him: and I will give him Re 3:7 the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there
shall
be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.
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And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne
of his father’s house.
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And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from
the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.
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Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed
and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly
destroyed: for the Lord has spoken it.