Isaiah, starting at chapter 22
{22:1} The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that
you are wholly 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 of you were bound together; they fled afar off. {22:4}
Therefore said I, 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, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking
down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. {22:6} Elam bore the
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 did look 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} and you numbered the houses of
Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall; {22:11}
you made also 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
did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and
to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: {22:13} and behold, joy
and gladness, killing oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and
drinking wine: let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die.
{22:14} Yahweh of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this
iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord,
Yahweh of Hosts. {22:15} Thus says the Lord, Yahweh 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? and who has you here,
that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high,
chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!" {22:17} Behold,
Yahweh, like a [strong] man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he
will wrap you up closely. {22:18} He will surely wind you round and
round, [and toss you] like a ball into a large country; there shall
you die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of
your lord's house. {22:19} I will thrust you from your office; and
from your station shall you be pulled down. {22:20} It shall happen in
that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
{22:21} and I will cloth him with your robe, and strengthen him with
your belt, and I will commit your government into his hand; and he
shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of
Judah. {22:22} The key of the house of David will I lay on his
shoulder; and he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut,
and none shall open. {22:23} I will fasten him as a nail in a sure
place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father's house.
{22:24} They shall 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 Yahweh of hosts, shall the
nail that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn
down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off; for
Yahweh 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; and 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 shall be sorely pained 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 afar off to
sojourn? {23:8} Who has purposed this against Tyre, the giver of
crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
honorable of the earth? {23:9} Yahweh of hosts has purposed it, to
stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable
of the earth. {23:10} Pass through your land as 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: Yahweh has given
commandment concerning Canaan, to destroy the strongholds of it.
{23:12} He said, You shall no more rejoice, you oppressed virgin
daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shall you
have no rest. {23:13} Behold, the land of the Chaldeans: this people
was not; the Assyrian founded it for those who dwell in the
wilderness; they set up their towers; they overthrew the palaces of
it; they made it a ruin. {23:14} Howl, you ships of Tarshish; for your
stronghold is laid waste. {23:15} It shall come to pass in that day,
that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of
one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tyre as 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 shall happen after the
end of seventy years, that Yahweh will visit Tyre, and she shall
return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the
kingdoms of the world on the surface of the earth. {23:18} Her
merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be
treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who
dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
{24:1} Behold, Yahweh makes the earth empty, and makes it waste, and
turns it upside down, and scatters abroad the inhabitants of it.
{24:2} It shall 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 to him. {24:3} The earth shall be utterly emptied, and
utterly laid waste; for Yahweh has spoken this word. {24:4} The earth
mourns and fades away, the world languishes and fades away, the lofty
people of the earth do languish. {24:5} The earth also is polluted
under the inhabitants of it; because they have transgressed the laws,
violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant. {24:6}
Therefore has the curse 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 do sigh. {24:8} The mirth of
tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of
the harp ceases. {24:9} They shall not drink wine with a song; strong
drink shall be bitter to those who drink it. {24:10} The waste 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} In the city is left
desolation, and the gate is struck with destruction. {24:13} For thus
shall it be 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 shall shout; for the
majesty of Yahweh they cry aloud from the sea. {24:15} Therefore
glorify Yahweh in the east, even the name of Yahweh, the God of
Israel, in the isles 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, and the pit, and the snare, are on you, O inhabitant of
the earth. {24:18} It shall happen, that he who flees from the noise
of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he who comes up out of the
midst of the pit shall 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 shall stagger like a drunken man, and
shall sway back and forth like a hammock; and the disobedience of it
shall be heavy on it, and it shall fall, and not rise again. {24:21}
It shall happen in that day, that Yahweh will punish the host 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 Yahweh of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion, and in
Jerusalem; and before his elders shall be glory.
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