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The Valley of Vision: Jerusalem's Fall and Leadership Change

Isaiah 22:1-25

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Chapter 22
1 Oracle of the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you that you have all gone up to the roofs? 2 Tumultuous, full city, uproarious city, exultant town—your slain are not slain by the sword nor dead of war. 3 All your officers have fled together. They bound all your found ones from a bow; they bound them together—from afar they fled. 4 Therefore I said, "Listen to me! I will lament in weeping—do not hasten to comfort me over the destruction of the Daughter of my People." 5 For a day of uproar and trampling and confusion to the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, quaking wall and cry to the mountain! 6 And Elam bore the quiver in the chariot, Adam horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7 And it was: the divine election/choice of your valleys—they were filled with chariots, and the judicial decisions/verdicts—they positioned themselves at the gate. 8 And he revealed the screen of Judah, and she looked on that day to the weapons in the House of the Forest. 9 You saw the breaches in the City of David, for they had multiplied, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool. 10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you pulled down houses to fortify the wall. 11 And you made a ritual immersion pool between the walls for the waters of the Blessing, the old one. And you did not look to the Maker and formed it from afar; you did not see. 12 And the Lord, the LORD of hosts, called on that day for weeping and lamentation and baldness and girding with sackcloth. 13 And behold, joy and gladness—slaughtering oxen and butchering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine—“Eat, drink, for tomorrow we die.” 14 And it was revealed in the ears of the LORD of hosts, “If this iniquity is atoned for you until you die,” says the Lord the LORD of hosts. 15 Thus says the Lord the LORD of hosts to you: Go to this steward, Shebna, who is over the house. 16 What right do you have here, and who do you have here, that you have hewn for yourself here a burial site—hewn from the height a burial site, engraved for himself in the rock a tabernacle for himself? 17 Behold, the LORD will shake you with a shaking, man, and he will wrap you with your wrapping. 18 He will whirl you, he will whirl you—a whirling like a ball—to the spacious land of hands. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory, the shame of the temple of your bases. 19 And I will thrust you down from your station and from your standing; it will destroy you. 20 And it will be on that day, and I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21 And I will clothe him with your tunic and gird him with your sash; I will strengthen him, and I will give your authority into his hand, and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. 22 And I will give the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, and he will open and no one will close, and he will shut and no one will open. 23 And I will drive him as a peg in a trustworthy place, and he will become a throne of glory to the house of his father. 24 And they will hang on him all the glory of his father's house: the offshoots and the sprouts, all the small vessels, from the vessels of the basins to all the vessels of the lyres. 25 In that day, declares the LORD of hosts, "The peg driven in a faithful place will be removed and cut down and fall, and the burden that is upon it will be cut off," for the LORD has spoken.