Yesha`yahu, 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, the LORD 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 Yehudah; 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
Yerushalayim, 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, the LORD 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} The LORD of Hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this
iniquity shall 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 Shevna, 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, the
LORD, 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 Elyakim the son of Hilkiyah: {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 Yerushalayim, and to the house of
Yehudah. {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 the LORD 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 the LORD has spoken it.
{23:1} The burden of Tzor. 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 Tzidon, that pass over the sea,
have replenished. {23:3} On great waters the seed of the Shichor, the
harvest of the Nile, was her revenue; and she was the market of
nations. {23:4} Be ashamed, Tzidon; 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 Mitzrayim, they shall be sorely pained
at the report of Tzor. {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 Tzor, the giver of
crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the
honorable of the [1>]eretz[<1]? {23:9} The LORD of hosts has purposed
it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the
honorable of the [2>]eretz[<2]. {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:
the LORD has given [3>]mitzvah[<3] concerning Kana`an, to destroy the
strongholds of it. {23:12} He said, You shall no more rejoice, you
oppressed virgin daughter of Tzidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even
there shall you have no rest. {23:13} Behold, the land of the Kasdim:
this people was not; the Ashshur 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 Tzor shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of
one king: after the end of seventy years it shall be to Tzor 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 the LORD will visit Tzor, and she shall
return to her hire, and shall play the prostitute with all the
kingdoms of the world on the surface of the [4>]eretz[<4]. {23:18} Her
merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the LORD: it shall not
be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who
dwell before the LORD, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
{24:1} Behold, the LORD makes the [1>]eretz[<1] 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
[2>]Kohen[<2]; 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 [3>]eretz[<3] shall
be utterly emptied, and utterly laid waste; for the LORD has spoken
this word. {24:4} The [4>]eretz[<4] mourns and fades away, the world
languishes and fades away, the lofty people of the [5>]eretz[<5] do
languish. {24:5} The [6>]eretz[<6] 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 [7>]eretz[<7], and those who dwell therein are
found guilty: therefore the inhabitants of the [8>]eretz[<8] 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
timbrels 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 [9>]eretz[<9] 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 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
Yisra'el, in the isles of the sea! {24:16} From the uttermost part of
the [10>]eretz[<10] 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 [11>]eretz[<11]. {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 [12>]eretz[<12]
tremble. {24:19} The [13>]eretz[<13] is utterly broken, the
[14>]eretz[<14] is torn apart, the [15>]eretz[<15] is shaken
violently. {24:20} The [16>]eretz[<16] 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 the LORD will
punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the
[17>]eretz[<17] on the [18>]eretz[<18]. {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 Tziyon, and in Yerushalayim; and before his
Zakenim shall be glory.
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Footnotes:
[1] {23:8} earth
[2] {23:9} earth
[3] {23:11} commandment
[4] {23:17} earth
[1] {24:1} earth
[2] {24:2} priest
[3] {24:3} earth
[4] {24:4} earth
[5] {24:4} earth
[6] {24:5} earth
[7] {24:6} earth
[8] {24:6} earth
[9] {24:13} earth
[10] {24:16} earth
[11] {24:17} earth
[12] {24:18} earth
[13] {24:19} earth
[14] {24:19} earth
[15] {24:19} earth
[16] {24:20} earth
[17] {24:21} earth
[18] {24:21} earth
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