{"book":"Isaiah","slug":"isaiah","ch":22,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Isaiah","prev":"isaiah/21","next":"isaiah/23","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[This is] the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"[This is] the burden against the Valley of Vision:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"What ails you now,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"that you have all gone up to the rooftops,"}],"h":"The Valley of Vision","style":"reg"},{"v":2,"t":"O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"O city of commotion,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"O town of revelry?"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Your slain did not die by the sword,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"nor were they killed in battle."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"All your rulers have fled together,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"captured without a bow."},{"style":"indent1","t":"All your fugitives were captured together,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"having fled to a distant place."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"Therefore I said,“ Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Therefore I said,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"“ Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly!"},{"style":"indent1","t":"Do not try to console me"},{"style":"indent2","t":"over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"For the Lord GOD of Hosts has [set] a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision — of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"For the Lord GOD of Hosts has [set] a day"},{"style":"indent2","t":"of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision —"},{"style":"indent1","t":"of breaking down the walls"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and crying to the mountains."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":6,"t":"Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and Kir uncovers the shield."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and horsemen are posted at the gates."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"He has uncovered"},{"style":"indent2","t":"the defenses of Judah."},{"style":"reg","t":"On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.","f":[]},{"v":10,"t":"You counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore them down to strengthen the wall.","f":[]},{"v":11,"t":"You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.","f":[]},{"v":12,"t":"On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts"},{"style":"indent2","t":"called for weeping and wailing,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"for shaven heads"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the wearing of sackcloth."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":13,"t":"But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine:“ Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”","f":["Cited in 1 Corinthians 15:32"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"But look, there is joy and gladness,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"eating of meat and drinking of wine:"},{"style":"indent2","t":"“ Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing:“ Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing:"},{"style":"indent1stline","t":"“ Until your dying day,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"this sin of yours will never be atoned for,”"},{"style":"selah","t":"says the Lord GOD of Hosts."}],"style":"reg"},{"v":15,"t":"This is what the Lord GOD of Hosts says:“ Go, [say] to Shebna, the steward in charge of the palace:","f":[],"h":"A Message for Shebna","style":"reg"},{"v":16,"t":"What are you doing here, and who [authorized] you to carve out a tomb for yourself here — to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?","f":[]},{"v":17,"t":"Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":18,"t":"roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots {will remain} — a disgrace to the house of your master.","f":[]},{"v":19,"t":"I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.","f":[]},{"v":20,"t":"On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":21,"t":"I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.","f":[]},{"v":22,"t":"I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.","f":["See Revelation 3:7."]},{"v":23,"t":"I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.","f":[]},{"v":24,"t":"So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots — all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.","f":[],"style":"reg"},{"v":25,"t":"In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"reg","t":"In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.”"},{"style":"reg","t":"Indeed, the LORD has spoken."}],"style":"reg"}]}