Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Isa 22:1 |
The burden against the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops, |
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Isa 22:2 |
You who are full of noise, A tumultuous city, a joyous city? Your slain [men are] not slain with the sword, Nor dead in battle. |
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Isa 22:3 |
All your rulers have fled together; They are captured by the archers. All who are found in you are bound together; They have fled from afar. |
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Isa 22:4 |
Therefore I said, "Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; Do not labor to comfort me Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people." |
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Isa 22:5 |
For [it is] a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord GOD of hosts In the Valley of Vision--Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain. |
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Isa 22:6 |
Elam bore the quiver With chariots of men [and] horsemen, And Kir uncovered the shield. |
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Isa 22:7 |
It shall come to pass [that] your choicest valleys Shall be full of chariots, And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. |
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Isa 22:8 |
He removed the protection of Judah. You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest; |
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Isa 22:9 |
You also saw the damage to the city of David, That it was great; And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. |
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Isa 22:10 |
You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, And the houses you broke down To fortify the wall. |
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Isa 22:11 |
You also made a reservoir between the two walls For the water of the old pool. But you did not look to its Maker, Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago. |
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Isa 22:12 |
And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts Called for weeping and for mourning, For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. |
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Isa 22:13 |
But instead, joy and gladness, Slaying oxen and killing sheep, Eating meat and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!" |
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Isa 22:14 |
Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts, "Surely for this iniquity there will be no atonement for you, Even to your death," says the Lord GOD of hosts. |
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Isa 22:15 |
Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts: "Go, proceed to this steward, To Shebna, who [is] over the house, [and say]: |
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Isa 22:16 |
'What have you here, and whom have you here, That you have hewn a sepulcher here, [As] he who hews himself a sepulcher on high, Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock? |
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Isa 22:17 |
Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently, O mighty man, And will surely seize you. |
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Isa 22:18 |
He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball Into a large country; There you shall die, and there your glorious chariots [Shall be] the shame of your master's house. |
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Isa 22:19 |
So I will drive you out of your office, And from your position he will pull you down. [fn] |
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Isa 22:20 |
'Then it shall be in that day, That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah; |
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Isa 22:21 |
I will clothe him with your robe And strengthen him with your belt; I will commit your responsibility into his hand. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem And to the house of Judah. |
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Isa 22:22 |
The key of the house of David I will lay on his shoulder; So he shall open, and no one shall shut; And he shall shut, and no one shall open. |
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Isa 22:23 |
I will fasten him [as] a peg in a secure place, And he will become a glorious throne to his father's house. |
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Isa 22:24 |
'They will hang on him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers. |
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Isa 22:25 |
'In that day,' says the LORD of hosts, 'the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that [was] on it will be cut off; for the LORD has spoken.' " |
NKJV Footnotes:
- (22:19) Septuagint omits he will pull you down; Syriac, Targum, and Vulgate read I will pull you down.
