Isaiah 22 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Valley of Vision

Isa 22:1The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

Isa 22:2

Isa 22:2you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.

Isa 22:3

Isa 22:3All your rulers have fled together, without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.

Isa 22:4

Isa 22:4Therefore I said: "Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."

Isa 22:5

Isa 22:5For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

Isa 22:6

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

Isa 22:7

Isa 22:7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.

Isa 22:8

Isa 22:8He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,

Isa 22:9

Isa 22:9and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool,

Isa 22:10

Isa 22:10and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

Isa 22:11

Isa 22:11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or have regard for him who planned it long ago.

Isa 22:12

Isa 22:12In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;

Isa 22:13

Isa 22:13and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Isa 22:14

Isa 22:14The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you till you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

Isa 22:15

Isa 22:15Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:

Isa 22:16

Isa 22:16What have you to do here and whom have you here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself, you who hew a tomb on the height, and carve a habitation for yourself in the rock?

Isa 22:17

Isa 22:17Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you,

Isa 22:18

Isa 22:18and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master's house.

Isa 22:19

Isa 22:19I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your station.

Isa 22:20

Isa 22:20In that day I will call my servant Eli'akim the son of Hilki'ah,

Isa 22:21

Isa 22:21and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.

Isa 22:22

Isa 22:22And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

Isa 22:23

Isa 22:23And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

Isa 22:24

Isa 22:24And they will hang on him the whole weight of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.

Isa 22:25

Isa 22:25In that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a sure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."

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Isaiah 22 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

The Valley of Vision

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