Isaiah 22

Isaiah 22, verse 1. ¹The word concerning the valley of Zion: What has happened to you, now that you have all gone up to worthless houses? Isaiah 22, verse 2. ²The city is full of loud crying. Your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor are your dead those who died in war. Isaiah 22, verse 3. ³All your rulers have fled, and your captives are tightly bound, and the mighty among you have fled. Isaiah 22, verse 4. ⁴Therefore I said, “Let me alone; I will weep bitterly; do not labor to comfort me at the destruction of the daughter of my race.” Isaiah 22, verse 5. ⁵For it is a day of trouble, destruction, trampling, and error from the Lord of hosts in the Valley of Zion. They wander on the mountains, from the least to the greatest of them. Isaiah 22, verse 6. ⁶And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, gathered for battle. Isaiah 22, verse 7. ⁷It shall come to pass, your chosen valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall block up your gates. Isaiah 22, verse 8. ⁸They shall uncover the gates of Judah, and look in that day on the chosen houses of the city. Isaiah 22, verse 9. ⁹They shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David, and see they are many. They shall see they had turned back the waters of the old pool into the city, Isaiah 22, verse 10. ¹⁰and had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem to fortify the wall for the city. Isaiah 22, verse 11. ¹¹You also made a reservoir for yourself between the two walls of the inner old pool. But you did not look to Him who made it from the beginning, nor did you perceive Him who created it. Isaiah 22, verse 12. ¹²In that day the Lord of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth. Isaiah 22, verse 13. ¹³But instead, they celebrated in joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, so as to eat and drink wine, saying, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” Isaiah 22, verse 14. ¹⁴These things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts, for this sin shall not be forgiven you until you die. Isaiah 22, verse 15. ¹⁵Thus the Lord of hosts says, “Go into the chamber, to Shebna the steward, and say to him, Isaiah 22, verse 16. ¹⁶‘What have you here, and what is this to you, that you have hewn a memorial here for yourself, and made yourself a memorial on high, and engraved a testimony for yourself in a rock? Isaiah 22, verse 17. ¹⁷Indeed the Lord of hosts will cast out and destroy such a man, and take away your robe Isaiah 22, verse 18. ¹⁸and glorious crown, and cast you into a large and unmeasured country. There you shall die, and there your beautiful chariot shall be brought to dishonor and your master's house trampled. Isaiah 22, verse 19. ¹⁹You will be taken from your stewardship and position. Isaiah 22, verse 20. ²⁰Then it shall be in that day, I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah. Isaiah 22, verse 21. ²¹I will clothe him with your robe and give your crown to him, and I will commit your power and your stewardship into his hands. He shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah. Isaiah 22, verse 22. ²²I will give him the glory of David, and he shall rule, and no one will oppose him. Isaiah 22, verse 23. ²³I will establish him as a ruler in a trustworthy place, and he will become a glorious throne to his father's house. Isaiah 22, verse 24. ²⁴Everyone glorious in his father's house will trust in him, from small to great, and they will depend on him. Isaiah 22, verse 25. ²⁵In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘the man established in a trustworthy place will be removed and fall, and the glory that was on him will be taken away; for the Lord has spoken.’”