^22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What troubles you now, that you have entirely gone up to the housetops? ^22:2 O you that are full of shouts, a commotionuous city, a joyous town. Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle. ^22:3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.

    ^22:4 Therefore I said, Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. ^22:5 For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls and a crying to the mountains.

    ^22:6 And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen and Kir uncovered the shield. ^22:7And it happened, that your choicest valleys were full of chariots and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

    ^22:8 And he took away the covering of Judah and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. ^22:9 And you^* saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many. And to fortify the wall, you^* gathered together the waters of the lower pool, ^22:10 and you^* numbered the houses of Jerusalem and you^* broke down the houses. ^22:11 You^* also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you^* did not look to him who had done this, nor had you^* respect to him who purposed it long ago.

    ^22:12 And in that day the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, called for weeping and for mourning and for baldness and for girding with sackcloth. ^22:13 And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die. ^22:14 And Jehovah of hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you^* till you^* die, says the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

    ^22:15 The Lord says thus, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, ^22:16 What are you doing here? And whom have you here, that you have hewed you out here a sepulcher? Hewing him out a sepulcher on high, carving a dwelling for himself in the rock!

    ^22:17 Behold, Jehovah, like a strong man, will hurl you away violently. Yes, he will wrap you up closely. ^22:18 He will surely wind you round and round, tossing 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. ^22:19 And I will thrust you from your office and you will be pulled down from your station.

    ^22:20 And it will happen in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah. ^22:21 And I will clothe him with your robe and strengthen him with your belt. And I will commit your government into his hand and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.^22:22 And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder and he will open and none will shut and he will shut and none will open.

    ^22:23 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place and he will be for a throne of glory to his father's house. ^22:24 And they will hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoot, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons.

    ^22:25 In that day, says Jehovah of hosts, the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way and it will be hewn down and fall. And the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for Jehovah has spoken it.