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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/21.htm" title="Isaiah 21">◄</a> Isaiah 22 <a href="../isaiah/23.htm" title="Isaiah 23">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29022" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29022" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">The Valley of Vision</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="sl1f"><span id="v29022001" class="ver">1</span>Oracle on the Valley of Vision:<a id="rfn29022001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022001-1">*</a> <a id="ren29022001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl">What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up,</p> <p class="sl1">all of you, to the housetops,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022002" class="ver">2</span><a id="rfn29022002-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022002-1">*</a> You who were full of noise,</p> <p class="sl1">tumultuous city,</p> <p class="sl1">exultant town?<a id="ren29022002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl">Your slain are not slain with the sword,</p> <p class="sl1">nor killed in battle.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022003" class="ver">3</span>All your leaders fled away together,</p> <p class="sl1">they were captured without use of bow;</p> <p class="sl">All who were found were captured together,</p> <p class="sl1">though they had fled afar off.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022004" class="ver">4</span>That is why I say: Turn away from me,</p> <p class="sl1">let me weep bitterly;</p> <p class="sl">Do not try to comfort me</p> <p class="sl1">for the ruin of the daughter of my people.<a id="ren29022004-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022004-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022005" class="ver">5</span>It is a day of panic, rout and confusion,</p> <p class="sl1">from the Lord, the <span class="tetr">God</span> of hosts, in the Valley of Vision<a id="rfn29022005-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022005-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl">Walls crash;</p> <p class="sl1">a cry for help to the mountains.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022006" class="ver">6</span>Elam takes up the quiver,</p> <p class="sl1">Aram mounts the horses</p> <p class="sl1">and Kir<a id="rfn29022006-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022006-1">*</a> uncovers the shields.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022007" class="ver">7</span>Your choice valleys are filled with chariots,</p> <p class="sl1">horses are posted at the gates—</p> <p class="sl1l"><span id="v29022008" class="ver">8</span>and shelter over Judah is removed.<a id="rfn29022008-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022008-1">*</a></p> </div> <p>On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest; <span id="v29022009" class="ver">9</span><a id="rfn29022009-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022009-1">*</a> you saw that the breaches in the City of David were many; you collected the water of the lower pool. <span id="v29022010" class="ver">10</span>You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, tearing some down to strengthen the wall; <span id="v29022011" class="ver">11</span>you made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to the city’s Maker, nor consider the one who fashioned it long ago.</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29022012" class="ver">12</span>On that day the Lord,</p> <p class="sl1">the <span class="tetr">God</span> of hosts, called</p> <p class="sl">For weeping and mourning,</p> <p class="sl1">for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022013" class="ver">13</span>But look! instead, there was celebration and joy,</p> <p class="sl1">slaughtering cattle and butchering sheep,</p> <p class="sl">Eating meat and drinking wine:</p> <p class="sl1l">“Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”<a id="ren29022013-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022013-d">d</a></p> </div> <p class="pcon"><span id="v29022014" class="ver">14</span>This message was revealed in my hearing from the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts:</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="sl1f">This iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,</p> <p class="sl1">says the Lord, the <span class="tetr">God</span> of hosts.</p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Shebna and Eliakim</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29022015" class="ver">15</span>Thus says the Lord, the <span class="tetr">God</span> of hosts:</p> <p class="sl1">Up, go to that official,</p> <p class="sl1">Shebna,<a id="rfn29022015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022015-1">*</a> master of the palace,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022016" class="ver">16</span><a id="rfn29022016-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022016-1">*</a> “What have you here? Whom have you here,</p> <p class="sl1">that you have hewn for yourself a tomb here,</p> <p class="sl">Hewing a tomb on high,</p> <p class="sl1">carving a resting place in the rock?”</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022017" class="ver">17</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall hurl you down headlong, mortal man!</p> <p class="sl1">He shall grip you firmly,</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022018" class="ver">18</span>And roll you up and toss you like a ball</p> <p class="sl1">into a broad land.</p> <p class="sl">There you will die, there with the chariots you glory in,</p> <p class="sl1">you disgrace to your master’s house!</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022019" class="ver">19</span>I will thrust you from your office</p> <p class="sl1">and pull you down from your station.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022020" class="ver">20</span>On that day I will summon my servant</p> <p class="sl1">Eliakim,<a id="rfn29022020-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022020-1">*</a> son of Hilkiah;<a id="ren29022020-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022020-e">e</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022021" class="ver">21</span>I will clothe him with your robe,</p> <p class="sl1">gird him with your sash,</p> <p class="sl1">confer on him your authority.</p> <p class="sl">He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem,</p> <p class="sl1">and to the house of Judah.<a id="ren29022021-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022021-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022022" class="ver">22</span>I will place the key<a id="rfn29022022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022022-1">*</a> of the House of David on his shoulder;</p> <p class="sl1">what he opens, no one will shut,</p> <p class="sl1">what he shuts, no one will open.<a id="ren29022022-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29022022-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022023" class="ver">23</span>I will fix him as a peg in a firm place,</p> <p class="sl1">a seat of honor for his ancestral house;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29022024" class="ver">24</span>On him shall hang all the glory of his ancestral house:<a id="rfn29022024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29022024-1">*</a></p> <p class="sl1">descendants and offspring,</p> <p class="sl1l">all the little dishes, from bowls to jugs.</p> </div> <p><span id="v29022025" class="ver">25</span>On that day, says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> of hosts, the peg fixed in a firm place shall give way, break off and fall, and the weight that hung on it shall be done away with; for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> has spoken.</p> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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