An Oracle Concerning Jerusalem

Isaiah 22

1 The 1 burden against the Valley of Vision.
What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops, 2 You who are full of noise,
A 2 tumultuous city, a a joyous city?
Your slain men are not slain with the sword,
Nor dead in battle. 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. 4 Therefore I said, "Look away from me,
b I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people."

5 c For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
d By the Lord GOD of hosts
In the Valley of Vision -
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain. 6 e Elam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And f Kir uncovered the shield. 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.

8 g He removed the 3 protection of Judah.
You looked in that day to the armor h of the House of the Forest; 9 i You also saw the 4 damage to the city of David,
That it was great;
And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,
And the houses you broke down
To fortify the wall. 11 j You also made a reservoir between the two walls
For the water of the old k pool.
But you did not look to its Maker,
Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts
l Called for weeping and for mourning,
m For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. 13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and n drinking wine:
o "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!" 14 p Then it was revealed in my hearing by the LORD of hosts,
"Surely for this iniquity there q will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death," says the Lord GOD of hosts.

15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts:
"Go, proceed to this steward,
To r Shebna, who is over the house, and say: 16 'What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he s who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock? 17 Indeed, the LORD will throw you away violently,
O mighty man,
t And will surely seize you. 18 He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there u your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master's house. 19 So I will drive you out of your office,
And from your position 5 he will pull you down. 20 'Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant v Eliakim the son of Hilkiah; 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. 22 The key of the house of David
I will lay on his w shoulder;
So he shall x open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open. 23 I will fasten him as y a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father's house. 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. 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.' "

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:13
    On the land of my people will come up thorns and briers, Yes, on all the happy homes in the joyous city.
  2. Cross References
    Jeremiah 4:19
    O my soul, my soul! I am pained in my very heart! My heart makes a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, Because you have heard, O my soul, The sound of the trumpet, The alarm of war.
  3. Cross References
    Isaiah 37:3
    And they said to him, "Thus says Hezekiah: 'This day is a day of trouble and rebuke and blasphemy; for the children have come to birth, but there is no strength to bring them forth.
  4. Cross References
    Lamentations 1:5
    Her adversaries have become the master, Her enemies prosper; For the LORD has afflicted her Because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
    Lamentations 2:2
    The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied All the dwelling places of Jacob. He has thrown down in His wrath The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
  5. Cross References
    Jeremiah 49:35
    Thus says the LORD of hosts: 'Behold, I will break the bow of Elam, The foremost of their might.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 15:1
    The burden against Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste And destroyed, Because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste And destroyed.
  7. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:15
    So Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king's house.
    2 Kings 18:16
    At that time Hezekiah stripped the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
  8. Cross References
    1 Kings 7:2
    He also built the House of the Forest of Lebanon; its length was one hundred cubits, its width fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, with four rows of cedar pillars, and cedar beams on the pillars.
    1 Kings 10:17
    He also made three hundred shields of hammered gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. The king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.
  9. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:20
    Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah - all his might, and how he made a pool and a tunnel and brought water into the city - are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
    2 Chronicles 32:4
    Thus many people gathered together who stopped all the springs and the brook that ran through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
    Nehemiah 3:16
    After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, leader of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs as far as the place in front of the tombs of David, to the man-made pool, and as far as the House of the Mighty.
  10. Cross References
    Nehemiah 3:16
    After him Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, leader of half the district of Beth Zur, made repairs as far as the place in front of the tombs of David, to the man-made pool, and as far as the House of the Mighty.
  11. Cross References
    2 Kings 20:20
    Now the rest of the acts of Hezekiah - all his might, and how he made a pool and a tunnel and brought water into the city - are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
    2 Chronicles 32:3
    He consulted with his leaders and commanders to stop the water from the springs which were outside the city; and they helped him.
    2 Chronicles 32:4
    Thus many people gathered together who stopped all the springs and the brook that ran through the land, saying, "Why should the kings of Assyria come and find much water?
  12. Cross References
    Isaiah 32:11
    Tremble, you women who are at ease; Be troubled, you complacent ones; Strip yourselves, make yourselves bare, And gird sackcloth on your waists.
    Joel 1:13
    Gird yourselves and lament, you priests; Wail, you who minister before the altar; Come, lie all night in sackcloth, You who minister to my God; For the grain offering and the drink offering Are withheld from the house of your God.
    Joel 2:17
    Let the priests, who minister to the LORD, Weep between the porch and the altar; Let them say, "Spare Your people, O LORD, And do not give Your heritage to reproach, That the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'
  13. Cross References
    Ezra 9:3
    So when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and plucked out some of the hair of my head and beard, and sat down astonished.
    Isaiah 15:2
    He has gone up to the temple and Dibon, To the high places to weep. Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba; On all their heads will be baldness, And every beard cut off.
    Micah 1:16
    Make yourself bald and cut off your hair, Because of your precious children; Enlarge your baldness like an eagle, For they shall go from you into captivity.
  14. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:11
    Woe to those who rise early in the morning, That they may follow intoxicating drink; Who continue until night, till wine inflames them!
    Isaiah 5:22
    Woe to men mighty at drinking wine, Woe to men valiant for mixing intoxicating drink.
    Isaiah 28:7
    But they also have erred through wine, And through intoxicating drink are out of the way; The priest and the prophet have erred through intoxicating drink, They are swallowed up by wine, They are out of the way through intoxicating drink; They err in vision, they stumble in judgment.
    Isaiah 28:8
    For all tables are full of vomit and filth; No place is clean.
    Luke 17:26 - 29
    And as it was in the days of Noah, so it will be also in the days of the Son of Man:
  15. Cross References
    Isaiah 56:12
    "Come," one says, "I will bring wine, And we will fill ourselves with intoxicating drink; Tomorrow will be as today, And much more abundant."
    1 Corinthians 15:32
    If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!
  16. Cross References
    Isaiah 5:9
    In my hearing the LORD of hosts said, "Truly, many houses shall be desolate, Great and beautiful ones, without inhabitant.
  17. Cross References
    1 Samuel 3:14
    "And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be atoned for by sacrifice or offering forever."
    Ezekiel 24:13
    In your filthiness is lewdness. Because I have cleansed you, and you were not cleansed, You will not be cleansed of your filthiness anymore, Till I have caused My fury to rest upon you.
  18. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:37
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
    Isaiah 36:3
    And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.
  19. Cross References
    2 Samuel 18:18
    Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and set up a pillar for himself, which is in the King's Valley. For he said, "I have no son to keep my name in remembrance." He called the pillar after his own name. And to this day it is called Absalom's Monument.
    2 Chronicles 16:14
    They buried him in his own tomb, which he had made for himself in the City of David; and they laid him in the bed which was filled with spices and various ingredients prepared in a mixture of ointments. They made a very great burning for him.
    Matthew 27:60
    And laid it in his new tomb which he had hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the door of the tomb, and departed.
  20. Cross References
    Esther 7:8
    When the king returned from the palace garden to the place of the banquet of wine, Haman had fallen across the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, "Will he also assault the queen while I am in the house?" As the word left the king's mouth, they covered Haman's face.
  21. Cross References
    Isaiah 2:7
    Their land is also full of silver and gold, And there is no end to their treasures; Their land is also full of horses, And there is no end to their chariots.
  22. Cross References
    2 Kings 18:18
    And when they had called to the king, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.
    Isaiah 36:3
    And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to him.
    Isaiah 36:22
    Then Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the recorder, came to Hezekiah with their clothes torn, and told him the words of the Rabshakeh.
    Isaiah 37:2
    Then he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.
  23. Cross References
    Isaiah 9:6
    For unto us a Child is born, Unto us a Son is given; And the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
  24. Cross References
    Job 12:14
    If He breaks a thing down, it cannot be rebuilt; If He imprisons a man, there can be no release.
    Revelation 3:7
    And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write, 'These things says He who is holy, He who is true, "He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens" :
  25. Cross References
    Ezra 9:8
    And now for a little while grace has been shown from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a peg in His holy place, that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage.
    Zechariah 10:4
    From him comes the cornerstone, From him the tent peg, From him the battle bow, From him every ruler together.
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