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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 22 BSB</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /><script type="application/javascript" src="https://scripts.webcontentassessor.com/scripts/8a2459b64f9cac8122fc7f2eac4409c8555fac9383016db59c4c26e3d5b8b157"></script><script src='https://qd.admetricspro.com/js/biblehub/biblehub-layout-loader.js'></script></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/22.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap//isaiah/22-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">BSB</a> > Isaiah 22</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/berean/menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" 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">Berean Standard Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/bsb/heb/isaiah/22.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">The Valley of Vision<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: <p class="indent1stline"> What ails you now, <p class="indent2"> that you have all gone up to the rooftops, <A name="3"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>O city of commotion, <p class="indent2"> O town of revelry? <p class="indent1stline"> Your slain did not die by the sword, <p class="indent2"> nor were they killed in battle. <A name="4"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>All your rulers have fled together, <p class="indent2"> captured without a bow. <p class="indent1"> All your fugitives were captured together, <p class="indent2"> having fled to a distant place. <A name="5"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore I said, <p class="indent2">“Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! <p class="indent1"> Do not try to console me <p class="indent2"> over the destruction of the daughter of my people.” <A name="6"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day <p class="indent2"> of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—<p class="indent1"> of breaking down the walls <p class="indent2"> and crying to the mountains. <A name="7"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, <p class="indent2"> and Kir uncovers the shield. <A name="8"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, <p class="indent2"> and horsemen are posted at the gates. <A name="9"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>He has uncovered <p class="indent2"> the defenses of Judah. <p class="reg"> On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago. <A name="13"></a><p class="indent1stline"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts <p class="indent2"> called for weeping and wailing, <p class="indent1"> for shaven heads <p class="indent2"> and the wearing of sackcloth. <A name="14"></a><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But look, there is joy and gladness, <p class="indent2"> butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, <p class="indent1"> eating of meat and drinking of wine: <p class="indent2">“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> <A name="15"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: <p class="indent1stline">“Until your dying day, <p class="indent2"> this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” <p class="selah"> says the Lord GOD of Hosts. <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">A Message for Shebna<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says: “Go, say to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace: <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock? <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” <p class="reg"> Indeed, the LORD has spoken.</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Cited in <a href="../1_corinthians/15.htm#32">1 Corinthians 15:32</a><br><span class="fnverse">22</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> See <a href="../revelation/3.htm#7">Revelation 3:7</a>.<br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible, BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub, Discovery Bible, OpenBible.com, and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. 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