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<t><p class="indent1">Your slain were not slain [in a glorious death] with the sword, <t><p class="indent1">Nor did they die in battle. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>All your leaders have fled together [with your king], <t><p class="indent1">And have been captured without the bow [which they had thrown away]; <t><p class="indent1">All of you who were found were taken captive together, <t><p class="indent1">Though they had fled far away. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Therefore I say, “Look away from me; <t><p class="indent1">Let me weep bitterly. <t><p class="indent1">Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of panic <i>and</i> of tumult, of trampling, of confusion <t><p class="indent1">In the Valley of Vision, <t><p class="indent1">A [day of] breaking down walls <t><p class="indent1">And a crying [for help] to the mountain. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Elam took up the quiver <t><p class="indent1">With the chariots, infantry and horsemen; <t><p class="indent1">And Kir uncovered the shield. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And it came to pass that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, <t><p class="indent1">And the horsemen took their fixed positions [in an offensive array] at the gate [of Jerusalem]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Then God removed the [protective] covering of Judah; <t><p class="indent1">And in that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest (Solomon’s armory). <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You saw that the breaches <t><p class="indent1">In the wall of the City of David [the citadel of Zion] were many; <t><p class="indent1">You collected [within the city’s walls] the waters of the Lower Pool (Siloam). <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Then you counted the houses of Jerusalem <t><p class="indent1">And you tore down the houses [to get materials] to fortify the city wall [by extending it]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You also made a reservoir between the two walls <t><p class="indent1">For the waters of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>Old Pool, <t><p class="indent1">But you did not look to its Maker, <t><p class="indent1">Nor did you recognize Him who planned it long ago. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Therefore in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called you to weeping, to mourning, <t><p class="indent1">To shaving the head and to wearing sackcloth [in humiliation]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Instead, there is joy and jubilation, <t><p class="indent1">Killing of oxen and slaughtering of sheep, <t><p class="indent1">Eating meat and drinking wine, <i>saying,</i> <t><p class="indent1">“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we may die.” <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But the LORD of hosts revealed Himself in my ears, <p class="indent1stline">“This sin absolutely will not be forgiven you <t><p class="indent1">Until you die,” says the Lord GOD of hosts. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For the Lord GOD of hosts says this, “Go to this [contemptible] steward, <t><p class="indent1">To <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>Shebna, who is in charge of the <i>royal</i> household [but is building himself a tomb worthy of a king, and say to him], <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>‘What business do you have here? <t><p class="indent1">And whom do you have here, <t><p class="indent1">That you have hewn out a tomb here for yourself, <t><p class="indent1">You who hew a sepulcher on the height, <t><p class="indent1">You who carve a resting place for yourself in the rock? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>‘Listen carefully, the LORD is about to hurl you away violently, O man; <t><p class="indent1">And He is about to grasp you firmly <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And roll you up tightly like a ball <t><p class="indent1">And toss you into a vast country; <t><p class="indent1">There you will die <t><p class="indent1">And there your splendid chariots will be, <t><p class="indent1">You shame of your master’s house.’ <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“I will depose you from your office, <t><p class="indent1">And you will be pulled down from your position [of importance]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“Then it will come to pass in that day <t><p class="indent1">That I will summon My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“And I will clothe him with your tunic [of distinction] <t><p class="indent1">And tie your sash securely around him. <t><p class="indent1">I will entrust him with your authority; <t><p class="indent1">He will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Then I will set on his shoulder the key of the house of David; <t><p class="indent1">When he opens no one will shut, <t><p class="indent1">When he shuts no one will open. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“I will drive him <i>like</i> a peg in a firm place, <t><p class="indent1">And he will become a throne of honor <i>and</i> glory to his father’s house. <A><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So they will hang on him all the honor <i>and</i> glory [the complete responsibility] of his father’s house, offspring and issue [of the family, high and low], all the least of the articles, from the bowls to all the jars. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>In that day,” declares the LORD of hosts, “the peg (Eliakim) that was driven into the firm place will give way; it will even break off and fall, and the burden hanging on it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken.”<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> I.e. an urgent message the prophet is under compulsion to proclaim.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Perhaps a reference to the Gihon Spring, also called the Upper Pool.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">15</span> Shebna would have been second in command to King Hezekiah before being deposed from steward (administrator) to the position of scribe (36:3).<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/21.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 21"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 21" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/23.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 23"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 23" /></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 align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><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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