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OEB ISA Chapter 22

ISA 22 ©

22Oracle on the Valley of Vision

What mean you that you are gone up,

one and all, to the house-tops,

2O town filled with uproar and tumult,

O city exultant?

your slain are not slain with sword,

neither fallen in battle.

3Your chieftains are all fled together

who wielded the bow,

and your strong men are all taken prisoners,

though far they had fled.

4‘Turn away from me,’ therefore I say,

‘Bitter tears would I shed.

Urge not upon me your comfort,

my people are ruined.’


5For a day of confusion and trampling and tumult,

does come from the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.

They tear down the wall in the Valley of Hanno,

the war-cry ascends to the mountains.

6Elam seized the quiver,

and Aram came riding on horses.

Kir uncovered the shield,

7your choicest of valleys was crowded

with chariots and horsemen,

arrayed for assault on the gate.

8Then you looked to the arms in the House of the

Forest,

9you had eyes for the gaps in the Fortress of

David;

11but you looked not to him who was doing all this,

you had no eyes for him who had planned it of old.

12So the Lord, God of Hosts, has called you

to weeping and mourning, to baldness and sackcloth.

13But see! There is nothing but mirth and rejoicing,

slaying of oxen and killing of sheep,

eating of meat and drinking of wine –

eating and drinking, ‘because’ (as you say)

‘we may haply be dead men tomorrow.’

14The Lord of Hosts has declared in my ear,

‘This sin will assuredly never be purged

till you die’ – says the Lord, God of Hosts.

Personal threats and promises

The doom of Sheba

15Against Shebna, the Governor of the Palace.

Thus says the Lord God,

go, get you yonder perfect (and say),

16‘What right have you here, and what kin have you here,

that you hew you here a sepulchre –

that here on the height you do hew you a sepulchre,

carving a home for yourself on the rock?

17Behold, the Lord will firmly enwrap you,

and wind you and wind you around and around:

18he will hurl you and hurl you afar like a ball,

mighty man that you are, to a spacious land.

Thither your glorious chariots will follow,

and there you will die,

you disgrace of the house of your lord.

The exaltation of Eliakim

19I will thrust you from your office,

and tear you down from your post.

20That day will I summon my servant,

Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.

21I will put your mantle upon him,

and give your authority into this hand.

And a father he will be

to the folk of Jerusalem and the household of

Judah.

22I will lay upon his shoulder

they key of the house of David,

so that none may shut when he opens,

nor open when he shuts.

23I will fasten him securely,

like a nail in a place that is firm.

Through him will his father’s house

be lifted to seats of honour.’

The downfall of Eliakim’s family

24his family will hang upon him with all their weight – off-spring and off-scourings, all the meaner sort of vessels, be they bowls or be they pitchers. 25In that day, says the Lord of Hosts, will the nail so firmly fastened be removed with a wrench, and down will come in ruin all that had hung upon it: for the Lord of Hosts has spoken it.

The fate of Phoenicia

The elegy

ISA 22 ©

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