Isaiah 22

What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
² You who were full of noise,
You boisterous town, you exultant city;
Your slain were not slain with the sword,
Nor ^[b]did they die in battle.
³ All your rulers have fled together,
And have been captured ^[c]without the bow;
All of you who were found were taken captive together,
^[d]Though they had fled far away.
⁴ Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,
Let me weep bitterly,
Do not ^[e]try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
⁵ For the Lord ^[f]God of hosts has a day of panic, subjugation and confusion
In the valley of vision,
A breaking down of walls
And a crying ^[g]to the mountain.
⁶ Elam took up the quiver
With the chariots, ^[h]infantry and horsemen;
And Kir uncovered the shield.
⁷ Then your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
And the horsemen took up fixed positions at the gate.
⁸ And He removed the ^[i]defense of Judah.
In that day you ^[j]depended on the weapons of the house of the forest,
⁹ And you saw that the breaches
In the wall of the city of David were many;
And you collected the waters of the lower pool.
¹⁰ Then you counted the houses of Jerusalem
And tore down houses to fortify the wall.
¹¹ And you made a reservoir between the two walls
For the waters of the old pool.
But you did not ^[k]depend on Him who made it,
Nor did you ^[l]take into consideration Him who planned it long ago.

“Come, go to this steward,
To Shebna, who is in charge of the royal household,
¹⁶ ‘What right do you have here,
And whom do you have here,
That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here,
You who hew a tomb on the height,
You who carve a resting place for ^[r]yourself in the rock?
¹⁷ ‘Behold, the Lord is about to hurl you headlong, O man.
And He is about to grasp you firmly
¹⁸ And roll you tightly like a ball,
To be cast into a vast country;
There you will die
And there your splendid chariots will be,
You shame of your master’s house.’
¹⁹ “I will depose you from your office,
And ^[s]I will pull you down from your station.
²⁰ “Then it will come about in that day,
That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
²¹ And I will clothe him with your tunic
And tie your sash securely about him.
I will entrust him with your ^[t]authority,
And he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
²² “Then I will set the key of the house of David on his shoulder,
When he opens no one will shut,
When he shuts no one will open.
²³ “I will drive him like a peg in a firm place,
And he will become a throne of glory to his father’s house.