Isaiah 22:15–25

¹⁵Thus said the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts: ‘Go, enter in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house: ¹⁶What—to thee here? And who—to thee here? That thou hast hewn out to thee here—a sepulchre? Hewing on high his sepulchre, Graving in a rock a dwelling for himself. ¹⁷Lo, Jehovah is casting thee up and down, A casting up and down, O mighty one, ¹⁸And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides—there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour Are the shame of the house of thy lord. ¹⁹And I have thrust thee from thy station, And from thine office he throweth thee down. ²⁰And it hath come to pass, in that day, That I have called to my servant, To Eliakim son of Hilkiah. ²¹And I have clothed him with thy coat, And with thy girdle I strengthen him, And thy garment I give into his hand, And he hath been for a father to the inhabitant of Jerusalem, And to the house of Judah. ²²And I have placed the key Of the house of David on his shoulder, And he hath opened, and none is shutting, And hath shut, and none is opening. ²³And I have fixed him a nail in a stedfast place, And he hath been for a throne of honour To the house of his father. ²⁴And they have hanged on him All the honour of the house of his father, The offspring and the issue, All vessels of small quality, From vessels of basins to all vessels of flagons. ²⁵In that day—an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, Moved is the nail that is fixed In a stedfast place, Yea, it hath been cut down, and hath fallen, And cut off hath been the burden that is on it, For Jehovah hath spoken!’

Chapter 23