Isaiah:22

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* The oracle on the valley of vision , What aileth thee , then , That thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops ? * With tumults , art thou filled , thou citadel in commotion ! city exultant ! Thy slain , are Not the slain , of the sword , Nor the dead in battle . * All thy ruler , having fled , together , by the bow , are taken captive : All found in thee have been taken captive , together , Far away , have they fled . * For this cause , I said Look away from me , Bitterly , will I weep , Do not press to comfort me , * For the ruin of the daughter of my people . For a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity , pertaineth to My Lord , Yahweh of hosts , in the valley of vision , an undermining of walls , and a crying for help to the mountain . * Yea , Elam , beareth the quiver , With trams of men , horsemen , And , Kir , hath uncovered the shield . * And it hath come to pass that the choice of thy vales , are full of chariots ; Yea , the horsemen , have set themselves , in array , at the gate . * Then removed he the veil of Judah , Yea thou didst peer on that day , into the armoury of the forest-house ; * And the breaches in the city of David , ye beheld for they were many , So ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool ; * And the houses of Jerusalem , ye counted , And brake down the houses , to fortify the wall ; * And a reservoir , ye made between the two walls , for the waters of the ancient pool , And had no regard unto him that made it , Nor unto him that formed it long ago , had ye respect . * And , when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day , for weeping , and for lamentation , and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth , * Then lo ! joy and rejoicing , killing oxen and slaughtering sheep , eating flesh and drinking wine , Let us eat and drink , For to-morrow , we may die ! * Therefore did Yahweh reveal himself in mine ears . Surely there shall be no propitiatory-covering put over this iniquity for you until ye die , Saith My Lord Yahweh of hosts . * Thus , said My Lord Yahweh , of hosts , Come go in unto this steward , Unto Shebna , who is over the house : * What doest thou here ? And whom hast thou here ? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre , As one hewing on high his sepulchre , Cutting out in the cliff a habitation for himself ? * Lo ! Yahweh , is about to hurl thee , with a hurl , O mighty man , And roll thee with a roll ; * He will , toss , thee , with a toss , like a ball , into a country wide on both hands , There , shalt thou die , And there shall thy glorious chariots be the contempt of the house of thy lord . * Thus will I thrust thee out from thine office , And from thy station , shall one tear thee down . * And it shall come to pass in that day , That I will call for my servant , for Eliakim son of Hilkiah , * And will clothe him with thy tunic And with thy girdle , will I gird him , And thine authority , will I deliver into his hand , So shall he become a father To the inhabitant of Jerusalem and To the house of Judah . * And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder , And he shall open and none shall shut , And shut and none shall open ; * And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place , And he shall become a throne of glory , to the house of his father ; * And they shall hang upon him all the weight of his fathers house The offshoots and the side-twigs All the small vessels , Both the cups and all the jugs * In that day , Declareth Yahweh of hosts Shall the peg , give way , that was fastened in a sure place , Yea it shall be cut off and fall And the burden that was upon it shall perish , For , Yahweh , hath spoken !

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