| Chapter 22 |
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The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? |
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You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. |
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All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off. |
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Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don`t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
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For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. |
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Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. |
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It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. |
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He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. |
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You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool; |
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and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall; |
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you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn`t look to him who had done this, neither had you respect to him who purposed it long ago. |
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In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: |
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and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. |
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Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts. |
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Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, |
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"What do you here? and whom has you here, that you have hewed you out here a tomb? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!" |
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Behold, Yahweh, like a strong man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely. |
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He will surely wind you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a large country; there shall you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord`s house. |
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I will thrust you from your office; and from your station shall you be pulled down. |
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It shall happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: |
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and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. |
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The key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. |
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I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father`s house. |
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They shall hang on him all the glory of his father`s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers. |
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In that day, says Yahweh of hosts, shall the nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for Yahweh has spoken it. |