Isaiah, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that
you have all gone up to the housetops? {22:2} You that are full of
shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain
with the sword, neither are they dead in battle. {22:3} All your
rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who
were found by you were bound together. They fled far away. {22:4}
Therefore I said, "Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don't
labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
{22:5} For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of
perplexity, from the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, in the valley of vision;
a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains." {22:6}
Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir
uncovered the shield. {22:7} It happened that your choicest valleys
were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the
gate. {22:8} He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in
that day to the armor in the house of the forest. {22:9} You saw the
breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered
together the waters of the lower pool. {22:10} You numbered the houses
of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
{22:11} You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water
of the old pool. But you didn't look to him who had done this, neither
did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago. {22:12} In that
day, the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning,
and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth: {22:13} and behold, joy
and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and
drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."
{22:14} The LORD of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, "Surely this
iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die," says the Lord, the
LORD of Hosts.
{22:15} Thus says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, "Go, get yourself to
this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
{22:16} 'What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug
out a tomb here?' Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a
habitation for himself in the rock!" {22:17} Behold, the LORD will
overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you
firmly. {22:18} He will surely wind you around and around, and throw
you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there
the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord's house.
{22:19} I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down
from your station.
{22:20} It will happen in that day that I will call my servant
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, {22:21} and I will clothe him with your
robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government
into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. {22:22} I will lay the key of
the house of David on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will
shut. He will shut, and no one will open. {22:23} I will fasten him
like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his
father's house. {22:24} They will hang on him all the glory of his
father's house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from
the cups even to all the pitchers. {22:25} "In that day," says the
LORD of Hosts, "the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give
way. It will be cut down, and fall. The burden that was on it will be
cut off, for the LORD has spoken it."
{23:1} The burden of Tyre. Howl, you ships of Tarshish! For it is
laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in. From the land
of Kittim it is revealed to them. {23:2} Be still, you inhabitants of
the coast, you whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea,
have replenished. {23:3} On great waters, the seed of the Shihor, the
harvest of the Nile, was her revenue. She was the market of nations.
{23:4} Be ashamed, Sidon; for the sea has spoken, the stronghold of
the sea, saying, "I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither
have I nourished young men, nor brought up virgins." {23:5} When the
report comes to Egypt, they will be in anguish at the report of Tyre.
{23:6} Pass over to Tarshish! Wail, you inhabitants of the coast!
{23:7} Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days,
whose feet carried her far away to travel? {23:8} Who has planned this
against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose
traffickers are the honorable of the earth? {23:9} The LORD of Hosts
has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into
contempt all the honorable of the earth. {23:10} Pass through your
land like the Nile, daughter of Tarshish. There is no restraint any
more. {23:11} He has stretched out his hand over the sea. He has
shaken the kingdoms. The LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan's
strongholds. {23:12} He said, "You shall rejoice no more, you
oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon. Arise, pass over to Kittim. Even
there you will have no rest."
{23:13} Behold, the land of the Kasdim. This people was not. The
Assyrians founded it for those who dwell in the wilderness. They set
up their towers. They overthrew its palaces. They made it a ruin.
{23:14} Howl, you ships of Tarshish, for your stronghold is laid
waste! {23:15} It will come to pass in that day that Tyre will be
forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. After the
end of seventy years it will be to Tyre like in the song of the
prostitute. {23:16} Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute
that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you
may be remembered. {23:17} It will happen after the end of seventy
years that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall return to her
wages, and will play the prostitute with all the kingdoms of the world
on the surface of the earth. {23:18} Her merchandise and her wages
will be holiness to the LORD. It will not be treasured nor laid up;
for her merchandise will be for those who dwell before the LORD, to
eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
{24:1} Behold, the LORD makes the earth empty, makes it waste, turns
it upside down, and scatters its inhabitants. {24:2} It will be as
with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his
master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so
with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the
taker of interest, so with the giver of interest. {24:3} The earth
will be utterly emptied and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has
spoken this word. {24:4} The earth mourns and fades away. The world
languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.
{24:5} The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they
have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the
everlasting covenant. {24:6} Therefore the curse has devoured the
earth, and those who dwell therein are found guilty. Therefore the
inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left. {24:7} The new
wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted sigh. {24:8}
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends.
The joy of the harp ceases. {24:9} They will not drink wine with a
song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it. {24:10} The
confused city is broken down. Every house is shut up, that no man may
come in. {24:11} There is a crying in the streets because of the wine.
All joy is darkened. The mirth of the land is gone. {24:12} The city
is left in desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction.
{24:13} For it will be so in the midst of the earth among the peoples,
as the shaking of an olive tree, as the gleanings when the vintage is
done. {24:14} These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the
majesty of the LORD. They cry aloud from the sea. {24:15} Therefore
glorify the LORD in the east, even the name of the LORD, the God of
Israel, in the islands of the sea! {24:16} From the uttermost part of
the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I
pine away! I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt
treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
{24:17} Fear, the pit, and the snare, are on you who inhabitant the
earth. {24:18} It will happen that he who flees from the noise of the
fear will fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the midst of
the pit will be taken in the snare; for the windows on high are
opened, and the foundations of the earth tremble. {24:19} The earth is
utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken
violently. {24:20} The earth will stagger like a drunken man, and will
sway back and forth like a hammock. Its disobedience will be heavy on
it, and it will fall and not rise again. {24:21} It shall happen in
that day that the LORD will punish the army of the high ones on high,
and the kings of the earth on the earth. {24:22} They shall be
gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be
shut up in the prison; and after many days shall they be visited.
{24:23} Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed; for
the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in Jerusalem; and
before his elders will be glory.
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