Isaiah 22:15–25

¹⁵Thus says the Lord ¹God of hosts,

“Come, go to this steward,

To ^aShebna, who is in charge of the royal household,

¹⁶‘What right do you have here,

And whom do you have here,

That you have ^ahewn a tomb for yourself here,

You who hew a tomb on the height,

You who carve a resting place for ¹yourself in the rock?

¹⁷‘Behold, the Lord is about to hurl you headlong, O man.

And He is about to grasp you firmly

¹⁸And roll you tightly like a ball,

To be ^acast into a vast country;

There you will die

And there your splendid chariots will be,

You shame of your master’s house.’

¹⁹“I will ^adepose you from your office,

And ¹I will pull you down from your station.

²⁰“Then it will come about in that day,

That I will summon My servant ^aEliakim the son of Hilkiah,

²¹And I will clothe him with your tunic

And tie your sash securely about him.

I will entrust him with your ¹authority,

And he will become a ^afather to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

²²“Then I will set ^athe key of the ^bhouse of David on his shoulder,

When he opens no one will shut,

When he shuts no one will ^copen.

²³“I will drive him like a ^apeg in a firm place,

And he will become a ^bthrone of glory to his father’s house.

²⁴“So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, offspring and ¹issue, all the least of vessels, from bowls to all the jars.

²⁵“In that day,” declares the Lord of hosts, “the ^apeg driven in a firm place will give way; it will even ^bbreak off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for the ^cLord has spoken.”