Isaiah 22:1–24:23
22 The oracle of the valley of vision:
⌊What business do you have going⌋a up, all of you, to the roofs,
2 ⌊noisy⌋,b tumultuous city,
exultant town?
Your slain are not slain by the sword,
nor are they dead from battle.
3 All of your rulers have fled together without a bow;
all of ⌊you who were found⌋c were captured.
They were captured together;
they had fled far away.
“Look away from me,
let me ⌊weep bitterly⌋;d
you must not insist on comforting me
for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusione in the valley of vision,
a tearing down of wallsf and a cry for help to the mountains.g
6 And Elam lifted up the quiver,
with chariotsh of meni and cavalry.
And Kir uncovered the shield.
the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots,j
and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate.
8 And he uncovered the covering of Judah.
And you looked, on that day, to the weaponsk of the House of the Forest,
9 and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many,
and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
10 And you counted the houses of Jerusalem,
and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11 And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool,
but you did not look to its maker,
and you did not see ⌊the one who created it long ago⌋.l
12 And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day
for weeping and mourning,
and for baldness and girding ⌊with⌋m sackcloth.
13 But look! Joy and gladness,
the killing of oxenn and the slaughtering of sheep,
the eating of meat and the drinking of wine!
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14 And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts:
“Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!”
says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
15 The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this:
“Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna,
who is over the house:
16 ‘What ⌊business do you have⌋o here,
and who ⌊do you have⌋p here,
that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself,
carving his grave on the height,
a dwelling place for him in the rock?
17 Look! Yahweh is about to ⌊really hurl⌋q you, man!
And he is about to grasp you firmly;
18 he will wind a winding tightly around you like a ball, to a ⌊wide land⌋.r
There you shall die,
and there the chariots of your splendor will be,
disgrace to your master’s house!
19 And I will push you from your office,
and he will throw you down from your position.
On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah,
21 and I will clothe him with your tunic,
and I will bind your sash firmly about him,
and I will put your authority into his hand,
and he shall be like a father to the inhabitantss of Jerusalem
and to the house of Judah.
22 And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder,
and he shall open and no one will be able to shut;
and he shall shut and no one will be able to open.
23 And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place,
and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father.
24 And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father’s house on him,
the offspring and the offshoot,
all of the small vessels,
from the ⌊bowls to the jars⌋.t
25 On that day, ⌊declares⌋u Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.’ ”
23 The oracle of Tyre:
Wail, ships of Tarshish, for ⌊the house is destroyed so that no one can enter⌋;a
it is announced to them from the land of Cyprus.
2 Be still, inhabitants of the coast,
merchant of Sidon, who travels over the sea, they filled you.
3 And on the great waters is the seed of Shihor,
the harvest of the Nile is its produce,
and she was the merchandise of the nations.
4 Be ashamed, Sidon, for the sea,
the fortress of the sea said, saying,
“I was not in labor,
and I have not given birth,
and I have not reared young men,
broughtb up young women.”
5 When the report comes to Egypt,
they will be in anguish at the report ⌊about⌋c Tyre.
Wail, inhabitants of the coast!
7 ⌊Is this your exultant one⌋,d her origin from the days of long ago?
Her feet brought her to dwell afar as an alien.
8 Who has planned this against Tyre, the bestower of crowns,e
whose merchants were princes,
her traders the honored ones of the earth?
9 Yahweh of hosts has planned it:
to defile the pride of all glory,
to humble all the honored ones of the earth.
10 Cross over your own land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish;
there is no longer a harbor.f
11 He has stretched his hand out over the sea;
he has made kingdoms shake.
Yahweh has commanded concerning Canaan
to destroy her fortresses.
“You will not ⌊continue⌋g to exult, crushed one, ⌊virgin⌋h daughter of Sidon.
Arise, cross over to Cyprus! There will be no rest for you even there.”
13 Look at the land of the Chaldeans!
⌊This people no longer exists.
Assyria destined⌋i it for wild animals.
They erected its siege towers;
they demolished its citadel fortresses.
It made her like a ruin.
For your fortress is destroyed.
15 And this will happen on that day: And Tyre will be forgotten seventy years,j
like the days of one king. At the end of seventy years,k it will be for Tyre like the song of the prostitute:
go around the city, forgotten prostitute!
Do it well, playing a stringed instrument!
Make numerous songs,l that you may be remembered.”
at the end of seventy years,m Yahweh will visit Tyre,
and she will return to her harlot’s wages,
and she will commit fornication
with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.
her merchandise and her harlot’s wages will be set apart for Yahweh;
it will not be stored up,
and it will not be hoarded,
but her merchandise will be for those who live before the ⌊presence⌋n of Yahweh,
for eating to satiation and for fine clothing.
24 Look! Yahweh is about to lay the earth waste
and is about to devastate it,
and he will twist her surface,
and he will scatter her inhabitants.
2 And it shall be as with the people, so with the priest;
as with the slave, so with his master;
as with the female slave, so with her mistress;
as with the buyer, so with the seller;
as with the lender, so with the borrower;
as with the creditor, so with the one to whom he lends.
3 The earth shall be utterly laid waste,
and it shall be utterly plundered,
for Yahweh has spoken this word.
4 The earth dries up, it withers;
the world languishes, it withers.
The elevated of the people of the earth languish,
5 and the earth is defiled beneath its inhabitants.
For they have transgressed laws;
they have passed by statutes;a
they have broken the everlasting covenant.
6 Therefore a curse devours the earth,
and the inhabitants in it suffer for their guilt.
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth burn,
and ⌊few men are left⌋.b
the vine languishes.
All the merry of heart sigh;
8 the joy of the tambourine has stopped.
The noise of the jubilant has ceased;
the joy of the lyre has stopped.
9 They do not drink wine with song;
strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
10 The city of emptiness is broken;
every house is shut ⌊so that no one can enter⌋;c
11 there is an outcry over the wine in the streets.
All joy turns into ⌊darkness⌋;d
the joy of the earth disappears.
12 Desolation is left in the city;
the gate is crushed into a state of ruin.
13 For it shall be like this in the midst of the earth,
among the nations,
like the beating of an olive tree,
like gleanings when a grape harvest is at an end.
14 They lift up their voices;e they sing for joy;
they shout out from the west over the majesty of Yahweh.
15 Therefore glorify Yahweh in the east,
the name of Yahweh the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.
16 We hear songs from the ⌊edge⌋f of the earth:
“Glory to the righteous one!”
But I say, “Ruin to me!
Ruin to me! Woe to me!
The treacherous ones deal treacherously,
and the treacherous ones deal treacherously with treachery!”
17 Terror and the pit and the snare are upon you, inhabitantsg of the earth!
The one who flees from the sound of the terror shall fall into the pit,
and the one who goes up from ⌊inside the pit⌋h shall be caught in the snare,
for the windows from heaven are opened,
and the foundations of the earth tremble.
19 The earth is utterly broken;
the earth is torn asunder;
the earth is shaken violently.
20 The earth staggers to and fro like the drunkard,
and it sways like a hut,
and its transgression is heavy upon it,
and it falls and does not rise again.
21 And this shall happen on that day:
Yahweh will punish the host of heaven in heaven,
and the kings of the earth on the earth.
22 And they will be gathered in a gathering, like a prisoner ⌊in⌋i a pit.
And they will be shut ⌊in⌋j a prison and be punished ⌊after⌋k many days.
23 And the full moon will be ashamed
and the sun will be ashamed,
for Yahweh of hosts will rule on ⌊Mount Zion⌋l and in Jerusalem,
and before his elders in glory.