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Isaiah 22
New International Version

### A Prophecy About Jerusalem

22 A prophecy(A) against the Valley(B) of Vision:(C)

What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,(D)
2 you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult(E) and revelry?(F)
Your slain(G) were not killed by the sword,(H)
nor did they die in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled(I) together;
they have been captured(J) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4 Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep(K) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”(L)

5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(M)
of tumult and trampling(N) and terror(O)
in the Valley of Vision,(P)
a day of battering down walls(Q)
and of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam(R) takes up the quiver,(S)
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir(T) uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys(U) are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(V)

8 The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
and you looked in that day(W)
to the weapons(X) in the Palace of the Forest.(Y)
9 You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through(Z) in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.(AA)
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses(AB) to strengthen the wall.(AC)
11 You built a reservoir between the two walls(AD)
for the water of the Old Pool,(AE)
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard(AF) for the One who planned(AG) it long ago.

12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day(AH)
to weep(AI) and to wail,
to tear out your hair(AJ) and put on sackcloth.(AK)
13 But see, there is joy and revelry,(AL)
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!(AM)
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
“for tomorrow we die!”(AN)

14 The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing:(AO) “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned(AP) for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.

15 This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:

“Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna(AQ) the palace(AR) administrator:(AS)
16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave(AT) for yourself(AU) here,
hewing your grave on the height
and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

17 “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl(AV) you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw(AW) you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots(AX) you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19 I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted(AY) from your position.(AZ)

20 “In that day(BA) I will summon my servant,(BB) Eliakim(BC) son of Hilkiah. 21 I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash(BD) around him and hand your authority(BE) over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22 I will place on his shoulder(BF) the key(BG) to the house of David;(BH) what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.(BI) 23 I will drive him like a peg(BJ) into a firm place;(BK) he will become a seat[a] of honor(BL) for the house of his father. 24 All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.

25 “In that day,(BM)” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg(BN) driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.(BO)

#### Footnotes

1. Isaiah 22:23 Or throne

#### Cross references

1. Isaiah 22:1 : Isa 13:1
2. Isaiah 22:1 : Ps 125:2; Jer 21:13; Joel 3:2, 12, 14
3. Isaiah 22:1 : S Isa 1:1
4. Isaiah 22:1 : S Jos 2:8; Jer 48:38
5. Isaiah 22:2 : Eze 22:5
6. Isaiah 22:2 : S Isa 5:14; S 21:5
7. Isaiah 22:2 : S Isa 10:4
8. Isaiah 22:2 : S 2Ki 25:3
9. Isaiah 22:3 : S Isa 13:14
10. Isaiah 22:3 : S 2Ki 25:6
11. Isaiah 22:4 : S Isa 15:3; S La 1:16; Eze 21:6; Lk 19:41
12. Isaiah 22:4 : Jer 9:1
13. Isaiah 22:5 : S Isa 2:12
14. Isaiah 22:5 : S Job 40:12; S Ps 108:13
15. Isaiah 22:5 : S 2Sa 22:43; Isa 13:3; Jer 30:7; La 1:5; Eze 8:17-18; 9:9-10; Joel 2:31; Am 5:18-20; Zep 1:15
16. Isaiah 22:5 : S Isa 1:1
17. Isaiah 22:5 : Ne 6:15; S Ps 89:40; Isa 5:5; Jer 39:8; Eze 13:14
18. Isaiah 22:6 : S Isa 21:2
19. Isaiah 22:6 : Ps 46:9; Jer 49:35; 51:56
20. Isaiah 22:6 : S 2Ki 16:9
21. Isaiah 22:7 : Jos 15:8
22. Isaiah 22:7 : S 2Ch 32:1-2
23. Isaiah 22:8 : S Isa 2:12
24. Isaiah 22:8 : S 2Ch 32:5
25. Isaiah 22:8 : S 1Ki 7:2
26. Isaiah 22:9 : S Ne 1:3
27. Isaiah 22:9 : S 2Ki 18:17; S 2Ch 32:4
28. Isaiah 22:10 : Jer 33:4
29. Isaiah 22:10 : S 2Ch 32:5
30. Isaiah 22:11 : 2Ki 25:4; 2Ch 32:5; Jer 39:4
31. Isaiah 22:11 : S 2Ch 32:4
32. Isaiah 22:11 : S 1Sa 12:24
33. Isaiah 22:11 : 2Ki 19:25
34. Isaiah 22:12 : S Isa 2:12
35. Isaiah 22:12 : Joel 1:9; 2:17
36. Isaiah 22:12 : S Lev 13:40; Mic 1:16
37. Isaiah 22:12 : S Isa 3:24
38. Isaiah 22:13 : S Isa 21:5
39. Isaiah 22:13 : S 1Sa 25:36; Ecc 8:15; Isa 5:22; 28:7-8; 56:12; Lk 17:26-29
40. Isaiah 22:13 : 1Co 15:32*
41. Isaiah 22:14 : Isa 5:9
42. Isaiah 22:14 : S 1Sa 2:25; Isa 13:11; 26:21; 30:13-14; Eze 24:13
43. Isaiah 22:15 : S 2Ki 6:30; S 18:18
44. Isaiah 22:15 : S Ge 41:40
45. Isaiah 22:15 : ver 21
46. Isaiah 22:16 : Mt 27:60
47. Isaiah 22:16 : S Ge 50:5; S Nu 32:42
48. Isaiah 22:17 : Jer 10:18; 13:18; 22:26
49. Isaiah 22:18 : S Job 18:11; Isa 14:19; 17:13
50. Isaiah 22:18 : S Ge 41:43
51. Isaiah 22:19 : S 1Sa 2:7; S Ps 52:5
52. Isaiah 22:19 : Lk 16:3
53. Isaiah 22:20 : ver 25
54. Isaiah 22:20 : S Isa 20:3
55. Isaiah 22:20 : S 2Ki 18:18; S Isa 36:3
56. Isaiah 22:21 : S Isa 5:27
57. Isaiah 22:21 : ver 15
58. Isaiah 22:22 : Isa 9:6
59. Isaiah 22:22 : 1Ch 9:27; Mt 16:19; Rev 3:7
60. Isaiah 22:22 : S Isa 7:2
61. Isaiah 22:22 : S Job 12:14
62. Isaiah 22:23 : ver 25; Eze 15:3; Zec 10:4
63. Isaiah 22:23 : S Ezr 9:8; S Job 6:25
64. Isaiah 22:23 : S 1Sa 2:7-8; S Job 36:7
65. Isaiah 22:25 : ver 20
66. Isaiah 22:25 : S ver 23
67. Isaiah 22:25 : Isa 46:11; Mic 4:4

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