Isaiah:22

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* What troubles you now that you have all gone up on the roof ? * You are a town full of commotion , a city of tumult and revelry . The sword did not kill your slain , nor did they die in battle . * All your leaders have fled together . They have been captured without using the bow . All you who were caught were taken prisoner together . You fled while the enemy was still far away . * I said : »Turn away from me . Let me weep bitterly . Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people .« * The Lord Jehovah of Hosts has a day of tumult , trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision . It is a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains . * Elam takes up the quiver , with her charioteers and horses . Kir uncovers the shield . * Your choicest valleys are full of chariots , and horsemen are posted at the city gates . * The defenses of Judah are stripped away . And you looked in that day to the weapons in the house of the forest . * You saw that the City of David had many breaches in its defenses . You stored up water in the lower pool . * You counted the houses of Jerusalem . Then you broke down the houses to fortify the wall . * You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool . But you did not look to him who did it , or have regard for him who planned it long ago . * In that day Jehovah God of Hosts called to weeping and mourning , to baldness and putting on sackcloth . * Instead there was joy and festivity , killing oxen and slaughtering sheep , eating meat and drinking wine . »Let us eat and drink , for tomorrow we die .« * Jehovah of Hosts has disclosed himself in my ears : »Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die ,« says Jehovah of Hosts . * Jehovah of Hosts says : »Go to this steward , to Shebna , who is master of the household , and say to him : * »‘What right do you have here ? Who are your relatives here that you have cut out a tomb here for yourself , cutting a tomb on the height , and carving a habitation for yourself in the rock ? * »‘Jehovah will violently throw you away , O mighty man . He will surely seize you . * »‘He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball into a large country ! There you shall die , and there your glorious chariots will be the shame of your master ’s house .’ * »‘I will drive you out of your office . He will pull you down from your position . * »‘Then in that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah . * »‘I will clothe him with your robe and strengthen him with your belt . I will commit your responsibility into his hand . He will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah . * »‘I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder . He will open , and no one will shut and he will shut , and no one will open . * »‘I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place . He will become a glorious throne to his father ’s house . * »‘They will hang all the glory of his father ’s house on him , the offspring and the posterity , all vessels of small quantity , from the cups to all the pitchers . * »‘Jehovah of Hosts says : ‘In that day the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall . The load that was on it will be destroyed .’« Jehovah has spoken .

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