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There you will die and there the chariots you were so proud of will become a disgrace to your master&#8217s house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/22.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />crumple you into a ball, and toss you away into a distant, barren land. There you will die, and your glorious chariots will be broken and useless. You are a disgrace to your master!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/22.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/22.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/22.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />He will surely violently turn and toss thee <i>like</i> a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory <i>shall be</i> the shame of thy lord's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/22.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball Into a large country; There you shall die, and there your glorious chariots <i>Shall be</i> the shame of your master’s house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/22.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br /><i>And</i> wrap you up tightly like a ball, <i>To be</i> <i>driven</i> into a vast country; There you will die, And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master’s house!’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/22.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />And roll you tightly like a ball, To be cast into a vast country; There you will die And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master&#8217s house.&#8217<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/22.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br /><i>And</i> roll you tightly like a ball, <i>To be</i> <i>cast</i> into a vast country; There you will die, And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master’s house.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/22.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br /><i>And</i> He will surely roll you tightly like a ball, <i>To be</i> <i>cast</i> into a vast country; There you will die, And there your glorious chariots will be, You disgrace of your master’s house.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/22.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />And roll you up tightly like a ball And toss you into a vast country; There you will die And there your splendid chariots will be, You shame of your master’s house.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/22.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/22.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/22.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />He will surely wind thee round and round, and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/22.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />He will roll you into a ball and throw you into a wide open country, where you will die and your chariots will be destroyed. You're a disgrace to those you serve. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/22.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />He will surely turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country; there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, thou shame of thy lord's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/22.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />He will wrap you up tightly like a turban. He will throw you far away into another land. There you will die. There your splendid chariots will remain. There you will become a disgrace to your master's household.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/22.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />He will pick you up like a ball and throw you into a much larger country. You will die there beside the chariots you were so proud of. You are a disgrace to your master's household. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/22.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />rolling you up tightly like a ball and throwing you into a large country. There you will die, and there your splendid chariots will lie. You're a disgrace to your master's house! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/22.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/22.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />He will wind you up tightly into a ball and throw you into a wide, open land. There you will die, and there with you will be your impressive chariots, which bring disgrace to the house of your master. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/22.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/22.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />With violence he will surely turn and toss thee like a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/22.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/22.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />And your coverer covering, wrapping around, "" Wraps you around, O babbler, "" On a land of broad sides—there you die, "" And there the chariots of your glory [are] the shame of the house of your lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/22.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> And thy coverer covering, wrapping round, Wrappeth thee round, O babbler, On a land broad of sides -- there thou diest, And there the chariots of thine honour Are the shame of the house of thy lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/22.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Rolling, he will roll thee a roll as a ball into a land broad of hands: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory the dishonor of thy lord's house.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/22.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />He will crown you with a crown of tribulation. He will toss you like a ball into a broad and spacious land. There you will die, and there the chariot of your glory will be, for it is a shame to the house of your Lord.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/22.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />And roll you up and toss you like a ball into a broad land. There you will die, there with the chariots you glory in, you disgrace to your master’s house! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/22.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there your splendid chariots shall lie, O you disgrace to your master’s house!<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/22.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And he shall afflict you like the affliction of a company of soldiers besieged in a fortress from which there is no escape; there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your master's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/22.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />He shall afflict you in the siege according to the affliction of a company of soldiers in the land, an open space of the hands. There you shall die, and there the chariots of your glory are the disgrace of the house of your Master!<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/22.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country; There shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, Thou shame of the lord's house.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/22.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />and will cast thee into a great and unmeasured land, and there thou shalt die: and he will bring thy fair chariot to shame, and the house of thy prince to be trodden down.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/22-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=4518" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/22.htm">A Message for Shebna</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">17</span>Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/6801.htm" title="6801: ṣā·nō·wp̄ (V-Qal-InfAbs) -- To wrap or wind up together. A primitive root; to wrap, i.e. Roll or dress.">roll you</a> <a href="/hebrew/6801.htm" title="6801: yiṣ·nā·p̄ə·ḵā (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms:: 2ms) -- To wrap or wind up together. A primitive root; to wrap, i.e. Roll or dress."></a> <a href="/hebrew/6802.htm" title="6802: ṣə·nê·p̄āh (N-fs) -- A ball. From tsanaph; a ball."></a> <a href="/hebrew/1754.htm" title="1754: kad·dūr (Prep, Art:: N-ms) -- A circle, ball. From duwr; a circle, ball or pile.">into a ball,</a> <a href="/hebrew/413.htm" title="413: ’el- (Prep) -- To, into, towards. ">and sling you into</a> <a href="/hebrew/7342.htm" title="7342: ra·ḥă·ḇaṯ (Adj-fsc) -- Wide, broad. From rachab; roomy, in any direction, literally or figuratively.">a wide</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yā·ḏā·yim (N-fd) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)"></a> <a href="/hebrew/776.htm" title="776: ’e·reṣ (N-fs) -- Earth, land. From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth.">land.</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: šām·māh (Adv:: 3fs) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">There</a> <a href="/hebrew/4191.htm" title="4191: ṯā·mūṯ (V-Qal-Imperf-2ms) -- To die. A primitive root: to die; causatively, to kill.">you will die,</a> <a href="/hebrew/8033.htm" title="8033: wə·šām·māh (Conj-w:: Adv:: 3fs) -- There, thither. A primitive particle; there then; often thither, or thence.">and there</a> <a href="/hebrew/3519.htm" title="3519: kə·ḇō·w·ḏe·ḵā (N-msc:: 2ms) -- Rarely kabod; from kabad; properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness.">your glorious</a> <a href="/hebrew/4818.htm" title="4818: mar·kə·ḇō·wṯ (N-fpc) -- A chariot. Feminine of merkab; a chariot.">chariots will remain—</a> <a href="/hebrew/7036.htm" title="7036: qə·lō·wn (N-msc) -- Ignominy, dishonor. From qalah; disgrace; the pudenda.">a disgrace</a> <a href="/hebrew/1004.htm" title="1004: bêṯ (N-msc) -- A house. Probably from banah abbreviated; a house.">to the house</a> <a href="/hebrew/113.htm" title="113: ’ă·ḏō·ne·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Lord. Or adon; from an unused root; sovereign, i.e. Controller.">of your master.</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/22-26.htm">Jeremiah 22:26-27</a></span><br />I will hurl you and the mother who gave you birth into another land, where neither of you were born—and there you both will die. / You will never return to the land for which you long.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_samuel/2-30.htm">1 Samuel 2:30-36</a></span><br />Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained. / Behold, the days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that no one in it will reach old age. / You will see distress in My dwelling place. Despite all that is good in Israel, no one in your house will ever again reach old age. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/25-4.htm">2 Kings 25:4-7</a></span><br />Then the city was breached; and though the Chaldeans had surrounded the city, all the men of war fled by night by way of the gate between the two walls near the king’s garden. They headed toward the Arabah, / but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him. / The Chaldeans seized the king and brought him up to the king of Babylon at Riblah, where they pronounced judgment on him. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/12-13.htm">Ezekiel 12:13</a></span><br />But I will spread My net over him, and he will be caught in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon, the land of the Chaldeans; yet he will not see it, and there he will die.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/13-24.htm">Jeremiah 13:24</a></span><br />“I will scatter you like chaff driven by the desert wind.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/20-18.htm">2 Kings 20:18</a></span><br />And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/38-23.htm">Jeremiah 38:23</a></span><br />All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/17-20.htm">Ezekiel 17:20</a></span><br />I will spread My net over him and catch him in My snare. I will bring him to Babylon and execute judgment upon him there for the treason he committed against Me.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/29-16.htm">Jeremiah 29:16-19</a></span><br />this is what the LORD says about the king who sits on David’s throne and all the people who remain in this city, your brothers who did not go with you into exile— / this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will send against them sword and famine and plague, and I will make them like rotten figs, so bad they cannot be eaten. / I will pursue them with sword and famine and plague. I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth—a curse, a desolation, and an object of scorn and reproach among all the nations to which I banish them. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/36-6.htm">2 Chronicles 36:6</a></span><br />Then Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jehoiakim and bound him with bronze shackles to take him to Babylon.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/21-41.htm">Matthew 21:41</a></span><br />“He will bring those wretches to a wretched end,” they replied, “and will rent out the vineyard to other tenants who will give him his share of the fruit at harvest time.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/19-41.htm">Luke 19:41-44</a></span><br />As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-38</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/7-42.htm">Acts 7:42-43</a></span><br />But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? / You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/11-22.htm">Romans 11:22</a></span><br />Take notice, therefore, of the kindness and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but kindness to you, if you continue in His kindness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord's house.</p><p class="hdg">surely</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/17-13.htm">Isaiah 17:13</a></b></br> The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but <i>God</i> shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/7-17.htm">Amos 7:17</a></b></br> Therefore thus saith the LORD; Thy wife shall be an harlot in the city, and thy sons and thy daughters shall fall by the sword, and thy land shall be divided by line; and thou shalt die in a polluted land: and Israel shall surely go into captivity forth of his land.</p><p class="hdg">a large country.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/leviticus/11-27.htm">Ball</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-28.htm">Carriages</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-8.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-7.htm">Chariots</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-4.htm">Completely</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-20.htm">Country</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-14.htm">Die</a> <a href="/proverbs/25-10.htm">Disgrace</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-16.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-16.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm">House</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-1.htm">Large</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-3.htm">Master's</a> <a href="/isaiah/16-6.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">Roll</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-13.htm">Rolling</a> <a href="/isaiah/20-5.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/psalms/111-3.htm">Splendid</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm">Throw</a> <a href="/job/41-23.htm">Tightly</a> <a href="/psalms/108-9.htm">Toss</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-4.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-33.htm">Twisting</a> <a href="/psalms/139-17.htm">Vast</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-7.htm">Violence</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm">Violently</a> <a href="/psalms/29-9.htm">Whirl</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-12.htm">Wide</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm">Wind</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/leviticus/11-27.htm">Ball</a> <a href="/isaiah/46-1.htm">Carriages</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-19.htm">Cast</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-1.htm">Chariots</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-3.htm">Completely</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-2.htm">Country</a> <a href="/isaiah/38-1.htm">Die</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-8.htm">Disgrace</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-15.htm">End</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-23.htm">Glory</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-21.htm">House</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-33.htm">Large</a> <a href="/isaiah/36-9.htm">Master's</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-9.htm">Pride</a> <a href="/jeremiah/6-26.htm">Roll</a> <a href="/jeremiah/25-16.htm">Rolling</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-9.htm">Shame</a> <a href="/ezekiel/17-8.htm">Splendid</a> <a href="/isaiah/25-9.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-2.htm">Throw</a> <a href="/ezekiel/27-24.htm">Tightly</a> <a href="/isaiah/57-20.htm">Toss</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-17.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-1.htm">Twisting</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-13.htm">Vast</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-2.htm">Violence</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-19.htm">Violently</a> <a href="/jeremiah/23-19.htm">Whirl</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-15.htm">Wide</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-20.htm">Wind</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 22</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-1.htm">The prophet laments the invasion of Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-8.htm">He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm">He prophesies Shebna's deprivation</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-20.htm">And the substitution of Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The Hebrew word for "roll" (גָּלַל, galal) suggests a forceful action, indicating God's decisive judgment. In the historical context, this reflects the fate of Shebna, a high official in Jerusalem, who was to be removed from his position due to his pride and self-serving actions. The imagery of being rolled into a ball signifies the loss of control and the inevitability of divine judgment.<p><b>and sling you into a wide land</b><br />The act of slinging suggests a powerful and deliberate action, akin to a slingshot propelling an object far away. The "wide land" implies a place of exile, far from the comforts and security of home. In the ancient Near Eastern context, exile was a common punishment for those who fell out of favor with their rulers. This phrase underscores the severity of God's judgment, as being cast into a "wide land" signifies isolation and separation from one's community and heritage.<p><b>There you will die</b><br />This statement is stark and final, emphasizing the ultimate consequence of disobedience and pride. The certainty of death in a foreign land highlights the seriousness of the offense and the irrevocable nature of God's judgment. In the biblical narrative, death in exile was considered a tragic end, as it meant dying away from one's homeland and the covenant community. This serves as a sobering reminder of the wages of sin and the importance of humility and obedience to God.<p><b>and there your glorious chariots will remain</b><br />Chariots in ancient times were symbols of power, wealth, and military might. The mention of "glorious chariots" indicates the high status and pride of the individual being addressed. However, their remaining in a foreign land signifies the futility of earthly glory and possessions when faced with divine judgment. This phrase serves as a poignant reminder that material wealth and status cannot save one from the consequences of sin.<p><b>a disgrace to the house of your master</b><br />The term "disgrace" (חֶרְפָּה, cherpah) conveys a sense of shame and dishonor. The disgrace brought upon the "house of your master" indicates that the actions of the individual have not only personal consequences but also affect the reputation and standing of those they represent. In the context of Shebna, his downfall would bring shame to the royal house he served. This highlights the broader impact of sin and the responsibility of leaders to act with integrity and humility, as their actions reflect on those they serve.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/22.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) <span class= "bld">Like a ball into a large country.</span>--The picture is that of a ball flung violently on a smooth, even plain where it bounds on and on with nothing to stay its progress. The "large country" is, probably, the plain of Mesopotamia, where Shebna is to end his days in exile.<p><span class= "bld">There the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">Thither shall go the chariots of thy glory, the shame of thy lord's house. </span>The words point to another form of Shebna's ostentatious pride. Not content with riding on an ass or mule, as even judges and counsellors rode (<a href="/judges/5-10.htm" title="Speak, you that ride on white asses, you that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.">Judges 5:10</a>; <a href="/judges/10-4.htm" title="And he had thirty sons that rode on thirty ass colts, and they had thirty cities, which are called Havothjair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead.">Judges 10:4</a>; <a href="/judges/12-14.htm" title="And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on three score and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.">Judges 12:14</a>; <a href="/2_samuel/17-23.htm" title="And when Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his ass, and arose, and got him home to his house, to his city, and put his household in order, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.">2Samuel 17:23</a>), he had appeared in public in stately chariots, such as were used by kings (Song <a href="/songs/1-9.htm" title="I have compared you, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.">Song of Solomon 1:9</a>; <a href="/songs/3-9.htm" title="King Solomon made himself a chariot of the wood of Lebanon.">Song of Solomon 3:9</a>). These were to accompany him in his exile, but it would be as the spoil of the conqueror. There are no records of the fulfilment of the prediction, and the judgment may have been averted by repentance; but when we next meet with Shebna (<a href="/isaiah/36-22.htm" title="Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with their clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.">Isaiah 36:22</a>) he is in the inferior position of a scribe, and Eliakim occupies his place as being "over the household." . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/22.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">He will surely violently turn and toss thee</span>, etc.; literally, <span class="accented">rolling he will roll thee with rolling like a ball</span>, etc. <span class="cmt_word">Into a large country</span>. Assyria, or perhaps Egypt. If Shebna was disgraced on account of his recommending the Egyptian alliance, he may not improbably have taken refuge with Tirhakah. <span class="cmt_word">There the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house</span>; rather, <span class="accented">there shall be the chariots of thy glory</span>, <span class="accented">O thou shame of thy lord's house</span>. His chariots, in which he gloried, should accompany him, either as spoil taken by the enemy, or as the instruments of his flight. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/22-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">roll you</span><br /><span class="heb">צָנ֤וֹף</span> <span class="translit">(ṣā·nō·wp̄)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6801.htm">Strong's 6801: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wrap or wind up together</span><br /><br /><span class="word">into a ball,</span><br /><span class="heb">כַּדּ֕וּר</span> <span class="translit">(kad·dūr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition, Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1754.htm">Strong's 1754: </a> </span><span class="str2">A circle, ball, pile</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and sling you into</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶל־</span> <span class="translit">(’el-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_413.htm">Strong's 413: </a> </span><span class="str2">Near, with, among, to</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a wide</span><br /><span class="heb">רַחֲבַ֣ת</span> <span class="translit">(ra·ḥă·ḇaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adjective - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7342.htm">Strong's 7342: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wide, broad</span><br /><br /><span class="word">land.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶ֖רֶץ</span> <span class="translit">(’e·reṣ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_776.htm">Strong's 776: </a> </span><span class="str2">Earth, land</span><br /><br /><span class="word">There</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁ֣מָּה</span> <span class="translit">(šām·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> </span><span class="str2">There, then, thither</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you will die,</span><br /><span class="heb">תָמ֗וּת</span> <span class="translit">(ṯā·mūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4191.htm">Strong's 4191: </a> </span><span class="str2">To die, to kill</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and there</span><br /><span class="heb">וְשָׁ֙מָּה֙</span> <span class="translit">(wə·šām·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Adverb | third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8033.htm">Strong's 8033: </a> </span><span class="str2">There, then, thither</span><br /><br /><span class="word">your glorious</span><br /><span class="heb">כְּבוֹדֶ֔ךָ</span> <span class="translit">(kə·ḇō·w·ḏe·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3519.htm">Strong's 3519: </a> </span><span class="str2">Weight, splendor, copiousness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">chariots {will remain}—</span><br /><span class="heb">מַרְכְּב֣וֹת</span> <span class="translit">(mar·kə·ḇō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4818.htm">Strong's 4818: </a> </span><span class="str2">A chariot</span><br /><br /><span class="word">a disgrace</span><br /><span class="heb">קְל֖וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(qə·lō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7036.htm">Strong's 7036: </a> </span><span class="str2">Disgrace, the pudenda</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the house</span><br /><span class="heb">בֵּ֥ית</span> <span class="translit">(bêṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1004.htm">Strong's 1004: </a> </span><span class="str2">A house</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of your master.</span><br /><span class="heb">אֲדֹנֶֽיךָ׃</span> <span class="translit">(’ă·ḏō·ne·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_113.htm">Strong's 113: </a> </span><span class="str2">Sovereign, controller</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/22-18.htm">Isaiah 22:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/22-18.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 22:18 He will surely wind you around (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 22:17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 22:17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/22-19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 22:19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 22:19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>