Isaiah 22

The ^aburden of ^bthe valley of ^cvision.

What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up ^dto the housetops?

²Thou that art full of stirs,

A tumultuous city, ^ea joyous city:

Thy slain men are not slain with the sword,

Nor dead in battle.

^3fAll thy ^grulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers:

All that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.

⁴Therefore said I, ^hLook away from me; ⁱI will weep bitterly,

Labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

⁵For it is ^ka day of trouble, and of ^ltreading down, and of ^mperplexity

ⁿBy the Lord God of hosts in ^bthe valley of vision,

Breaking down the walls, and of ^ocrying to the mountains.

⁶And ^pElam bare the quiver

With ^qchariots of men and horsemen,

And ^rKir ^suncovered the shield.

⁷And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of ^qchariots,

And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

⁸And ^the discovered the covering of Judah,

And thou didst look in that day to ^uthe armour of ^vthe house of the forest.

^9wYe have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many:

And ^wxye gathered together the waters of ^ythe lower pool.

¹⁰And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,

And the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.

^11zYe made also a ditch between the two walls ^xfor the water of the old pool:

But ye have not looked unto ^athe Maker thereof,

Neither had respect unto him that fashioned it ^aalong ago.

¹²And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call ^bto weeping, and ^cto mourning,

And ^dto baldness, and ^eto girding with sackcloth:

¹³And behold joy and gladness,

Slaying oxen, and killing sheep,

Eating flesh, and drinking wine:

^fLet us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

¹⁴And it was revealed ^gin mine ears by the Lord of hosts,

Surely this ^hiniquity shall not be purged from you ⁱtill ye die,

Saith the Lord God of hosts.

¹⁵Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto ^kShebna, ^lwhich is over the house, and say,

¹⁶What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here,

^mThat thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here,

As he ⁿthat heweth him out a sepulchre on high,

And that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock?

¹⁷Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity,

^oAnd will surely cover thee.

¹⁸He will surely ^pviolently turn and toss thee like ^qa ball

Into a large country:

There shalt thou die,

And there the chariots of thy glory

Shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.

¹⁹And I will drive thee from thy station,

And from thy ^rstate shall he ^rrpull thee down.

²⁰And it shall come to pass in that day,

That I will call my servant ^klEliakim the son of Hilkiah:

²¹And ^sI will clothe him with thy robe,

And strengthen him with thy girdle,

And ^sI will commit thy government into his hand:

And he shall be ^ta father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,

And to the house of Judah.

²²And ^uthe key of the house of David will I lay ^vupon his shoulder;

So ^whe shall open, and none shall shut;

And ^whe shall shut, and none shall open.

²³And I will fasten him as ^xa nail in a sure place;

And he shall be ^yfor a glorious throne to his father’s house.

²⁴And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house,

^zThe offspring and the issue,

All vessels of small quantity,

From the vessels of ^acups, even to all the vessels of ^bflagons.

²⁵In that day, saith the Lord of hosts,

Shall ^cthe nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed,

And be ^dcut down, and fall;

And the ^eburden that was upon it shall be cut off:

^fFor the Lord hath spoken it.

XXIII.