GodsWord - Isaiah - 22

22:1  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?

22:2  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.

22:3  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.

22:4  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."

22:5  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.

22:6  Elam takes its quiver of arrows, manned chariots, and horsemen. Kir uncovers its shields.

22:7  Then your fertile valleys will be filled with chariots, and horsemen will stand ready in front of the gate.

22:8  On that day the LORD will remove the defenses of Judah. You will look for weapons in the House of the Forest.

22:9  You will see how many places in David's wall are broken. You will store water in the Lower Pool.

22:10  You will count the houses in Jerusalem. You will tear down those houses in order to fortify the walls.

22:11  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.

22:12  On that day the Almighty LORD of Armies will call for crying and for mourning, for shaving your heads and for wearing sackcloth.

22:13  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."

22:14  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.

22:15  This is what the Almighty LORD of Armies says: Go to Shebna, the man in charge of the palace, and say to him,

22:16  "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?

22:17  Look, mighty man! The LORD will throw you out. He will grab you.

22:18  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.

22:19  "I will remove you from your office and do away with your position.

22:20  When that day comes, I will call my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.

22:21  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.

22:22  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.

22:23  I will fasten him firmly in place like a peg, and he will be a source of honor for his father's household.

22:24  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."

22:25  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.