Isa 22
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The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up
to the housetops?
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O you that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are
not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
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All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were
found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.
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Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the
Lord, YHWH of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a
crying to the mountains.
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And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the
shield.
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And it came to pass, that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen
set themselves in array at the gate.
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And he took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor
in the house of the forest.
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And you saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered
together the waters of the lower pool;
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and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you brake down the houses to fortify
the wall;
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you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But
you looked not to him whom had done this, neither had you respect to him whom purposed
it long ago.
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And in that day did the Lord, YHWH of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and
to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
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and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking
wine: let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die.
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And YHWH of hosts revealed himself in mine ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be
forgiven you till you die, says the Lord, YHWH of hosts.
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Thus says the Lord, YHWH of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna,
who is over the house, [and say],
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What do you here? and whom has you here, that you have hewed you out here a sepulcher?
hewing him out a sepulcher on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!
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Behold, YHWH, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yea, he will wrap
you up closely.
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He will surely wind you round and round, [and toss you] like a ball into a large country;
there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your
lord`s house.
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And I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled
down.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son
of Hilkiah:
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and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will
commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
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And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open,
and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
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And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory
to his father`s house.
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And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father`s house, the offspring and
the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.
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In that day, says YHWH of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place
give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall
be cut off; for YHWH has spoken it.