Isaiah 22

1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth you now, that you art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2you that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: your slain not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, have fled from far. 4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5For a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7And it shall come to pass, your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 8And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest. 9Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 11Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago. 12And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die. 14And it was revealed in mine ears by the Yahuah of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, says the Lord GOD of hosts. 15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you unto this treasurer, unto Shebna, which over the house, , 16What hast you here? and whom hast you here, that you hast hewed you out a sepulchre here, he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock? 17Behold, the Yahuah will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you. 18He will surely violently turn and toss you a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory the shame of your lord's house. 19And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down. 20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: 21And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23And I will fasten him a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25In that day, says the Yahuah of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that upon it shall be cut off: for the Yahuah has spoken .