54 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
54 lines
3.3 KiB
Markdown
# Chapter 22
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1 The oracle concerning the valley of vision.
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What do you mean that you have gone up,
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all of you, to the housetops,
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2 you who are full of shoutings,
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tumultuous city, exultant town?
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Your slain are not slain with the sword
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or dead in battle.
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3 All your leaders have fled together;
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without the bow they were captured.
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All of you who were found were captured,
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though they had fled far away.
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4 Therefore I said:
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“Look away from me;
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let me weep bitter tears;
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do not labor to comfort me
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concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
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5 For the Lord God of hosts has a day
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of tumult and trampling and confusion
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in the valley of vision,
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a battering down of walls
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and a shouting to the mountains.
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6 And Elam bore the quiver
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with chariots and horsemen,
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and Kir uncovered the shield.
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7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
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and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
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8 He has taken away the covering of Judah.
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In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
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9 and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool,
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10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
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11 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago.
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12 In that day the Lord God of hosts
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called for weeping and mourning,
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for baldness and wearing sackcloth;
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13 and behold, joy and gladness,
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killing oxen and slaughtering sheep,
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eating flesh and drinking wine.
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“Let us eat and drink,
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for tomorrow we die.”
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14 The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears:
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“Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,”
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says the Lord God of hosts.
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15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:
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16 What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?
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17 Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you
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18 and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master's house.
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19 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station.
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20 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
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21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
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22 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
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23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.
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24 And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.
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25 In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.” |