Isaiah 22:1-25 GW

[1] This is the divine revelation about the valley of Vision. What's the matter with you? Why do all of you go up on the roofs? [2] You are a city filled with shouting, a town filled with noise and excitement. Your people weren't killed with swords. Your dead didn't die in battle. [3] All your leaders fled together and were captured without their bows and arrows. All those who were found were taken prisoner before any of them could get far away. [4] That is why I say, "Turn away from me so that I can cry bitterly. Don't try to comfort me because of the destruction brought on my people." [5] The Almighty LORD of Armies has chosen a special day. It will be a day of confusion and trampling in the valley of Vision, a day of tearing down walls and crying for help in the mountains. [6] Elam takes its quiver of arrows, manned chariots, and horsemen. Kir uncovers its shields. [7] Then your fertile valleys will be filled with chariots, and horsemen will stand ready in front of the gate. [8] On that day the LORD will remove the defenses of Judah. You will look for weapons in the House of the Forest. [9] You will see how many places in David's wall are broken. You will store water in the Lower Pool. [10] You will count the houses in Jerusalem. You will tear down those houses in order to fortify the walls. [11] You will build a reservoir between the two walls to hold the water of the Old Pool. You didn't look to Jerusalem's maker. You didn't see the one who formed it long ago. [12] On that day the Almighty LORD of Armies will call for crying and for mourning, for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth. [13] Instead, you will rejoice, celebrate, slaughter cattle, and butcher sheep. You will eat meat, drink wine, and say, "Let's eat and drink because tomorrow we're going to die." [14] The LORD of Armies revealed this to me: "Certainly, this wrong will not be forgiven even when you die," says the Almighty LORD of Armies. [15] This is what the Almighty LORD of Armies says: Go to Shebna, the man in charge of the palace, and say to him, [16] "What are you doing here? What right do you have to dig a tomb for yourself? What right do you have to cut it out in a prominent place? What right do you have to carve out a resting place for yourself in the rock? [17] Look, mighty man! The LORD will throw you out. He will grab you. [18] He will wrap you up tightly like a turban. He will throw you far away into another land. There you will die. There your splendid chariots will remain. There you will become a disgrace to your master's household. [19] "I will remove you from your office and do away with your position. [20] When that day comes, I will call my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah. [21] I will dress him in your linen robe and fasten it with your belt. I will give him your authority, and he will be like a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the nation of Judah. [22] I will place the key of the house of David around his neck. What he opens no one will shut. What he shuts no one will open. [23] I will fasten him firmly in place like a peg, and he will be a source of honor for his father's household. [24] They will hang on him the whole weight of his father's household, descendants and offspring and all the little utensils, from bowls to jars of every kind." [25] The LORD of Armies declares, "On that day the peg which I firmly fastened in place will be removed. It will be cut off and will fall, and everything hanging on it will be destroyed." The LORD has spoken.