AB - Isaiah - 22

22:1  THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF ZION. What has happened to you, that you now are all going up to the housetops, which help you not?

22:2  The city is filled with shouting; your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.

22:3  All your princes have fled, and your captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in you have fled far away.

22:4  Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

22:5  For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts; they wander in the valley of Zion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.

22:6  And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle.

22:7  And it shall be that your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.

22:8  And they shall uncover the gates of Judah, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.

22:9  And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David; and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city;

22:10  and that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city.

22:11  And you procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool; but you looked not to Him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not Him that created it.

22:12  And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for girding with sackcloth;

22:13  but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we die.

22:14  And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts; for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until you die.

22:15  Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Shebna the treasurer, and say to him, Why are you here?

22:16  And what have you to do here, that you have hewn yourself a tomb, and made yourself a tomb on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock?

22:17  Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,

22:18  and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die; and He will bring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down.

22:19  And you shall be removed from your stewardship, and from your place.

22:20  And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;

22:21  and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I will give your stewardship into his hands; and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Judah.

22:22  And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him; and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to open.

22:23  And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne in his father's house.

22:24  And everyone that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day.

22:25  Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed; for the Lord has spoken it.