22:1 An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,
22:2 O town full of commotion, O city of tumult and revelry? Your slain were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
22:3 All your leaders have fled together; they have been captured without using the bow. All you who were caught were taken prisoner together, having fled while the enemy was still far away.
22:4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”
22:5 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
22:6 Elam takes up the quiver, with her charioteers and horses; Kir uncovers the shield.
22:7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the city gates;
22:8 the defenses of Judah are stripped away. And you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest;
22:9 you saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses; you stored up water in the Lower Pool.
22:10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
22:11 You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.
22:12 The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
22:13 But see, there is joy and revelry, slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink,” you say, “for tomorrow we die!”
22:14 The LORD Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the LORD Almighty.
22:15 This is what the Lord, the LORD Almighty, says: “Go, say to this steward, to Shebna, who is in charge of the palace:
22:16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission to cut out a grave for yourself here, hewing your grave on the height and chiseling your resting place in the rock?
22:17 “Beware, the LORD is about to take firm hold of you and hurl you away, O you mighty man.
22:18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball and throw you into a large country. There you will die and there your splendid chariots will remain–you disgrace to your master’s house!
22:19 I will depose you from your office, and you will be ousted from your position.
22:20 “In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
22:21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22:22 I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
22:23 I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will be a seat of honor for the house of his father.
22:24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots–all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
22:25 “In that day,” declares the LORD Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The LORD has spoken.
22:1 The burden concerning the valley of vision: What then troubles you / That all have gone up to the housetops?
22:2 You who are full of noise, you tumultuous city, / You exultant town, / Your slain were not slain with the sword, / Nor are they dead because of battle.
22:3 All your rulers have fled together; / Apart from the bow they have been captured. / All of you who were found have been captured together, / Though they had fled far away.
22:4 Therefore I said, Look away from me! / Let me weep bitterly. / Do not hasten to comfort me / About the destruction of the daughter of my people.
22:5 For there is a day of turmoil and trampling down and confusion / With the Lord Jehovah of hosts / In the valley of vision, a breaking down of walls / And crying to the mountains.
22:6 And Elam took up the quiver, / With chariots of men and horsemen; / And Kir uncovered the shield.
22:7 Then your choicest valleys / Were full of chariots, / And the horsemen firmly fixed themselves at the gate;
22:8 And he removed the covering of Judah. / And you looked in that day / To the weapons of the Forest House,
22:9 While the breaches of the city of David / You saw to be many. / So you gathered the water of the lower pool;
22:10 And the houses of Jerusalem you counted, / And tore down the houses to fortify the wall.
22:11 Then you made a reservoir between the walls / For the water of the old pool. / But you did not look to its very Maker, / And Him who formed it long ago you did not regard.
22:12 Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hosts / Called you in that day / To weeping and to mourning, / To head shaving and to wearing sackcloth.
22:13 But now there is gladness and joy, / The slaying of cattle and the slaughtering of sheep, / The eating of meat and the drinking of wine; / Eating and drinking, for tomorrow we die!
22:14 But in my ears Jehovah of hosts revealed this: / This iniquity shall by no means be covered for you until you die, / Says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.
22:15 Thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts: / Get up, go to this steward, / To Shebna, who is over the king’s house, saying,
22:16 What are you doing here, and whom do you have here / That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here, / As he who has hewn a tomb on the heights, / As he who has cut out a resting place for himself in the rock?
22:17 Jehovah soon throws you far away, O mighty one, / And He grasps you firmly;
22:18 He will wind you up tightly; / Like a ball He will toss you into a wide land. / There you will die; and there the chariots of your glory / Will become the disgrace of the house of your master.
22:19 And I will drive you from your position, / And from your standing He will pull you down.
22:20 And in that day / I will call to My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
22:21 And I will clothe him with your tunic, / And I will strengthen him with your girding sash, / And I will put your dominion into his hand; / And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem / And to the house of Judah.
22:22 And I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder ? / When he opens, no one will shut; / When he shuts, no one will open.
22:23 And I will drive him as a peg into a sure place, / And he will become a throne of glory for his father’s house.
22:24 And they will hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all the smallest vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
22:25 In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, the peg driven into the sure place will be removed, even cut away, and it will fall; and the burden that was upon it will be cut down; for Jehovah has spoken.