| Chapter 22 |
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The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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: |
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-- Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield. |
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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. |
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And he uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest; |
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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; |
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and ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and have broken down the houses to fortify the wall; |
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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. |
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And in that day did the Lord Jehovah of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; |
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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. |
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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. |
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Thus saith the Lord Jehovah of hosts: Go, get thee in unto this steward, unto Shebna, who is over the house, and say, |
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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? |
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Behold, Jehovah will hurl thee with the force of a mighty man, and will cover thee entirely. |
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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! |
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And I will drive thee from thine office, and from thy station will I pull thee down. |
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkijah; |
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and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. |
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And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. |
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And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father`s house: |
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and they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father`s house, the offspring and the issue, all the small vessels, as well the vessels of cups as all the vessels of flagons. |
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In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for Jehovah hath spoken. |