Isaiah 22:15–25

Oracle regarding Shebna

¹⁵The 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?

¹⁷Look! Yahweh is about to really hurl^q you, man!

And he is about to grasp you firmly;

¹⁸he 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!

¹⁹And I will push you from your office,

and he will throw you down from your position.

²⁰And this shall happen:

On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah,

²¹and 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 inhabitants^s of Jerusalem

and to the house of Judah.

²²And 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.

²³And 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.

²⁴And 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

²⁵On 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.’ ”