About Jerusalem
22
📚✭The burden concerning the Valley of Vision:What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up
to the housetops?
2 📚You that are full of uproar,
a city full of tumult,
a joyous✭ city,
your slain men are not killed
by the sword,
or dead in battle.
3 📚✭All your rulers have fled together,
they are captured by the archers.
all who are found in you,
who have fled from afar,
are captured together.
4 📚Therefore I said,
“Look away from me.
I will weep bitterly.
Do not attempt to comfort me,
because of the plundering
of the daughter of my people”.
5 📚For it is a day of trouble,
and of trampling down,
and of perplexity from the Lord
God of hosts in the Valley
of Vision,
a breaking down of the walls,
and of crying out to
the mountains✭.
6 📚And Elam took up the quiver,
with chariots of men and
horsemen,
and Kir✭ uncovered the shield.
7 📚And it will happen that
your choicest valleys
will be full of chariots,
and the horsemen will set
themselves in array
at the gate.
8 📚And he removes the covering
of Judah.
And you looked in that day
to the armour of The House
of the Forest.
9 📚You have also seen the breaches
in the wall of the city of David,
that they are many.
And you collected the water✭
of the lower pool.
10 And you numbered the houses
of Jerusalem,
and broke down the houses
to fortify the wall.
11 📚✭You also made a reservoir
between the two walls for the water
of the old pool;
but you did not look
to its Maker,
or have respect for the one
who formed it long ago.
12 📚✭And in that day the Lord God
of hosts called for weeping
and for mourning,
and for shaving the head,
and for wearing sackcloth,
13 📚And, look,
joy and gladness,
slaughtering oxen,
and killing sheep, eating flesh,
and drinking wine,
and saying “let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die”.
14 📚And it was revealed in my hearing
by the LORD of hosts,
“Surely this wickedness will not be
purged from you until you die,
says the Lord God of hosts”.
15 📚✭Thus says the Lord God
of hosts,
“Go, get yourselves to this steward,
to Shebna,
who is over the house,
and say,
16 📚‘What do you have here?
And whom do you have here,
that you have cut out a tomb
for yourself here,
like one cutting out
a tomb on high for himself,
and carving for yourself
a resting place in a rock?
17 📚See, the LORD will hurl you down,
you mighty man,
and will surely seize you.
18 📚He will certainly turn violently
and toss you like
a ball into a large country.
There you will die,
and there your glorious chariots
will be the shame
of your lord’s house.’
19 📚And I will drive✭ you
from your position,
and pull you down
from your state✭.
20 📚✭“And this will happen on that day: I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21 📚✭and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your authority into his hands. And he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22 📚✭And I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder; so he will open, and no one will shut, and he will shut, and no one will open. 23 📚✭And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place; and he will be as a glorious throne to his father’s house. 24 📚And they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the jars.
25 📚“In that day✭, says the LORD of hosts, the peg that is fastened in the sure place will be removed, and be cut off, and fall✭; and the load that was on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken”.