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Isaiah 22

The Complete Jewish Bible CJB

1 A prophecy about the Valley of Vision: Tell me what is wrong with you, that you have all gone up on the roofs.

2 You city full of noise, confusion and boisterous excitement, your slain did not fall to the sword, nor did they die in battle.

3 All your leaders fled together and were captured without the use of a bow; all from you who were found were captured, even though they had fled far away.

4 This is why I said, "Don't look at me, leave me alone to weep bitterly, don't try to comfort me over the destruction of my people."

5 For it is a day of panic, trampling and confusion from Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva'ot in the Valley of Vision. With walls crashing down, they cry for help to the mountains.

6 'Eilam picks up the quivers, with cavalry and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shields.

7 In time, your choicest valleys are overrun by chariots, and the cavalry take their posts by the gate;

8 thus is Y'hudah's protection removed. That day you looked for the armor in the House of the Forest.

9 You saw how many breaches there were in the City of David, you collected water from the lower pool,

10 you surveyed the houses in Yerushalayim, tearing some down to fortify the wall.

11 You also built a reservoir between the two walls for the water from the Old Pool; but you didn't look to Him who made these things; you had no respect for Him who fashioned them long ago.

12 That day Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva'ot called on you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth;

13 but instead, one sees joy and celebrating, killing of oxen, slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat, drinking of wine "Let's eat and drink now, because tomorrow we'll be dead!"

14 Then ADONAI-Tzva'ot revealed himself in my ears: "You will not atone for this iniquity until you die." This is what Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva'ot says.

15 Thus says Adonai ELOHIM-Tzva'ot: "Go and find that steward, Shevna, administrator of the palace, and ask him:

16 'What do you own here, and who gave you the right to cut yourself a tomb here? Why do you get such an eminent tomb? Why are you carving a resting-place for yourself in the rock?'"

17 Look, strong man! ADONAI is about to throw you out! He will grab you,

18 roll you up, and toss you around like a ball in the open country. There you will die, with your fancy chariots, you disgrace to your master's palace!

19 "I will remove you from your office, I will snatch you from your post.

20 When that day comes, I will summon my servant Elyakim the son of Hilkiyahu.

21 I will dress him in your robe, gird him with your sash of office, and invest him with your authority. He will be a father to the people living in Yerushalayim and to the house of Y'hudah.

22 I will place the key of David's house on his shoulder; no one will shut what he opens; no one will open what he shuts.

23 "I will fasten him firmly in place like a peg, so that he will become a seat of honor for his clan.

24 They will hang on him all the weight of his clan, descendants and offspring, as well as all the vessels of small capacity, from pitchers to cups.

25 When that day comes, the peg fastened firmly in place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the weight that was on it will be cut off." For ADONAI has said it.

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...

6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.

7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.

8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.

9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.

10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.

11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:

13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.

14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,

16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?

17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,

18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!

19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.

20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:

21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.

22 And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.

23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.

24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.

25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.