LEB ISA Chapter 22

Oracle against Jerusalem

22 The oracle of the valley of vision:

⌊What business do you have going⌋[fn] up, all of you, to the roofs,

• 2 noisy ,[fn] tumultuous city,
  • exultant town?
• Your slain are not slain by the sword,
  • nor are they dead from battle.
• 3 All of your rulers have fled together without a bow;
  • all of you who were found[fn] were captured.
• They were captured together;
  • they had fled far away.

4 Therefore I said,

• “Look away from me,
  • let me weep bitterly ;[fn]
• you must not insist on comforting me
  • for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
• 5 For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion[fn] in the valley of vision,
  • a tearing down of walls[fn] and a cry for help to the mountains.[fn]
• 6 And Elam lifted up the quiver,
  • with chariots[fn] of men[fn] and cavalry.
• And Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And this happened:

• the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots,[fn]
  • and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate.
    • 8 And he uncovered the covering of Judah.
• And you looked, on that day, to the weapons[fn] of the House of the Forest,
  • 9 and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many,
    • and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
• 10 And you counted the houses of Jerusalem,
  • and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
    • 11 And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool,
• but you did not look to its maker,
  • and you did not see the one who created it long ago .[fn]

12 And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day

• for weeping and mourning,
  • and for baldness and girding with[fn] sackcloth.
• 13 But look! Joy and gladness,
  • the killing of oxen[fn] and the slaughtering of sheep,
• the eating of meat and the drinking of wine!
  • “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

14 And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts:

• “Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!”
  • says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.

Oracle regarding Shebna

15 The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this:

• “Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna,
  • who is over the house:
• 16 ‘What business do you have[fn] here,
  • and who do you have[fn] here,
• that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself,
  • carving his grave on the height,
  • a dwelling place for him in the rock?
• 17 Look! Yahweh is about to really hurl[fn] you, man!
  • And he is about to grasp you firmly;
    • 18 he will wind a winding tightly around you like a ball, to a wide land .[fn]
• There you shall die,
  • and there the chariots of your splendor will be,
    • disgrace to your master’s house!
• 19 And I will push you from your office,
  • and he will throw you down from your position.

20 And this shall happen:

• On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah,
  • 21 and I will clothe him with your tunic,
• and I will bind your sash firmly about him,
  • and I will put your authority into his hand,
• and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants[fn] of Jerusalem
  • and to the house of Judah.
• 22 And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder,
  • and he shall open and no one will be able to shut;
  • and he shall shut and no one will be able to open.
• 23 And I will drive him in like a peg into a secure place,
  • and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father.
• 24 And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father’s house on him,
  • the offspring and the offshoot,
• all of the small vessels,
  • from the bowls to the jars .[fn]

25 On that day, ⌊declares⌋[fn] Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.’ ”