Isaiah 22:15–25

Shebna’s Position Will Be Given to Eliakim

¹⁵This is what the Almighty Lord of Armies says: 

Go to Shebna, the man in charge of the palace, and say ⸤to him⸥, 

¹⁶“What are you doing here? 

What right do you have to dig a tomb for yourself? 

What right do you have to cut it out in a prominent place? 

What right do you have to carve out 

a resting place for yourself in the rock? 

¹⁷Look, mighty man! 

The Lord will throw you out. 

He will grab you. 

¹⁸He will wrap you up tightly like a turban. 

He will throw you far away into another land. 

There you will die. 

There your splendid chariots will remain. 

There you will become a disgrace to your master’s household. 

¹⁹“I will remove you from your office 

and do away with your position. 

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

²¹I will dress him in your linen robe 

and fasten it with your belt. 

I will give him your authority, 

and he will be like a father to those who live in Jerusalem 

and to the nation of Judah. 

²²I will place the key of the house of David around his neck. 

What he opens no one will shut. 

What he shuts no one will open. 

²³I will fasten him firmly in place like a peg, 

and he will be a source of honor for his father’s household. 

²⁴They will hang on him the whole weight of his father’s household, 

descendants and offspring and all the little utensils, 

from bowls to jars of every kind.” 

²⁵The Lord of Armies declares, 

“On that day the peg which I firmly fastened in place will be removed. 

It will be cut off and will fall, 

and everything hanging on it will be destroyed.” 

The Lord has spoken.