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Isaiah - ch 22 v 1 - 20
- The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
- Thou that wast full of stir, a town of tumult, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
- All thy rulers have fled together, they are taken prisoners without the bow: all that are found of thee are made prisoners together; they were fleeing far off.
- Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
- 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 day of breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountain:
- -- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.
- And it shall come to pass that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
- And he uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest;
- and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
- and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have broken down the houses to fortify the wall;
- and ye have made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not had regard unto the maker thereof, neither have ye looked unto him that fashioned it long ago.
- And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;
- and behold joy and rejoicing, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: -- Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
- And it was revealed in mine ears by Jehovah of hosts: Assuredly this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.
- Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
- What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?
- Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty man, and will cover thee entirely.
- Rolling thee up completely, he will roll thee as a ball into a wide country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy lord's house!
- And I will drive thee from thine office, and from thy station will I pull thee down.
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkijah;
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