Isaiah:22

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* The burden concerning the Valley of Vision . What aileth thee now , that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops , * Thou that art full of uproar , a tumultuous city , a joyous town ? Thy slain are not slain with the sword , nor dead in battle . * All thy rulers are fled together , without the bow they are bound ; all that are found of thee are bound together , they are fled afar off . * Therefore said I : 'Look away from me , I will weep bitterly ; strain not to comfort me , for the destruction of the daughter of my people .' * For it is a day of trouble , and of trampling , and of perplexity , from the Lord , the GOD of hosts , in the Valley of Vision ; Kir shouting , and Shoa at the mount . * And Elam bore the quiver , with troops of men , even horsemen ; and Kir uncovered the shield . * And it came to pass , when thy choicest valleys were full of chariots , and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate , * And the covering of Judah was laid bare , that thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest . * And ye saw the breaches of the city of David , that they were many ; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool . * And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem , and ye broke down the houses to fortify the wall ; * ye made also a basin between the two walls for the water of the old pool--but ye looked not unto Him that had done this , neither had ye respect unto Him that fashioned it long ago . * And in that day did the Lord , the GOD of hosts , call to weeping , and to lamentation , and to baldness , and to girding with sackcloth ; * And behold joy and gladness , slaying oxen and killing sheep , eating flesh and drinking wine --'Let us eat and drink , for tomorrow we shall die !' * And the LORD of hosts revealed Himself in mine ears : Surely this iniquity shall not be expiated by you till ye die , saith the Lord , the GOD of hosts . * Thus saith the Lord , the GOD of hosts : Go , get thee unto this steward , even unto Shebna , who is over the house : * What hast thou here , and whom hast thou here , that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre , thou that hewest thee out a sepulchre on high , and gravest a habitation for thyself in the rock ? * Behold , the LORD will hurl thee up and down with a man 's throw ; yea , He will wind thee round and round ; * He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country ; there shalt thou die , and there shall be the chariots of thy glory , thou shame of the lord 's house . * And I will thrust thee from thy post , and from thy station shalt thou be pulled down . * And it shall come to pass in that day , that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah ; * And I will clothe him with thy robe , and bind him with thy girdle , and I will commit thy government into his hand ; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem , and to the house of Judah . * And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder ; and he shall open , and none shall shut ; and he shall shut , and none shall open . * And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place ; and he shall be for a throne of honour to his father 's house . * And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father 's house , the offspring and the issue , all vessels of small quantity , from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons . * In that day , saith the LORD of hosts , shall the peg that was fastened in a sure place give way ; and it shall be hewn down , and fall , and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off ; for the LORD hath spoken it .

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