Isaiah 22 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Proclamation Against Jerusalem

Prophecy Against Jerusalem

Isa 22:1The burden against the Valley of Vision.

What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

Isa 22:2You who are full of noise,
A tumultuous city, a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle.

Isa 22:3

Isa 22:3All your rulers have fled together;
They are captured by the archers.
All who are found in you are bound together;
They have fled from afar.

Isa 22:4

Isa 22:4Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

Isa 22:5

Isa 22:5For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
By the Lord GOD of hosts
In the Valley of Vision—
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.

Isa 22:6

Isa 22:6Elam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And Kir uncovered the shield.

Isa 22:7

Isa 22:7It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys
Shall be full of chariots,
And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

Isa 22:8

Isa 22:8He removed the protection of Judah.
You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest;

Isa 22:9

Isa 22:9You also saw the damage to the city of David,
That it was great;
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

Isa 22:10

Isa 22:10You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall.

Isa 22:11

Isa 22:11You also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old pool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

Isa 22:12

Isa 22:12And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts
Called for weeping and for mourning,
For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Isa 22:13

Isa 22:13But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and drinking wine:
“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

Isa 22:14

Isa 22:14Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts,
“Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord GOD of hosts.

The Judgment on Shebna

Isa 22:15

Isa 22:15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts:

“Go, proceed to this steward,
To Shebna, who is over the house, and say:

Isa 22:16

Isa 22:16‘What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?

Isa 22:17

Isa 22:17Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently,
O mighty man,
And will surely seize you.

Isa 22:18

Isa 22:18He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master’s house.

Isa 22:19

Isa 22:19So I will drive you out of your office,
And from your position he will pull you down.[fn]

Isa 22:20

Isa 22:20‘Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;

Isa 22:21

Isa 22:21I will clothe him with your robe
And strengthen him with your belt;
I will commit your responsibility into his hand.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.

Isa 22:22

Isa 22:22The key of the house of David
I will lay on his shoulder;
So he shall open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.

Isa 22:23

Isa 22:23I will fasten him as a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.

Isa 22:24

Isa 22:24‘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 pitchers.

Isa 22:25

Isa 22:25‘In that day,’ says the LORD of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken.’ ”

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NKJV Footnotes

(22:19)

Septuagint omits he will pull you down; Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read I will pull you down.

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