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Isaiah - ch 22 v 1 - 20
- The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
- Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
- All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.
- Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.
- For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.
- And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.
- And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.
- And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.
- And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,
- And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify the wall.
- And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.
- And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
- And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
- And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
- Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:
- What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.
- Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.
- 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.
- And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.
- And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,
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