Thematic Bible
Isaiah 22:1 (show verse)
The oracle on the valley of vision, - What aileth thee, then, That thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops?
Isaiah 22:2 (show verse)
With tumults, art thou filled, thou citadel in commotion! city exultant! Thy slain, are Not the slain, of the sword, Nor the dead in battle.
Isaiah 22:3 (show verse)
All thy ruler, having fled, together, by the bow, are taken captive: All found in thee have been taken captive, together, Far away, have they fled.
Isaiah 22:4 (show verse)
For this cause, I said - Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep, - Do not press to comfort me,
Isaiah 22:5 (show verse)
For the ruin of the daughter of my people. For a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord, Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain.
Isaiah 22:6 (show verse)
Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trams of men, and horsemen, - And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield.
Isaiah 22:7 (show verse)
And it hath come to pass that the choice of thy vales, are full of chariots; Yea, the horsemen, have set themselves, in array, at the gate.
Isaiah 22:8 (show verse)
Then removed he the veil of Judah, - Yea thou didst peer on that day, into the armoury of the forest-house;
Isaiah 22:9 (show verse)
And the breaches in the city of David, ye beheld for they were many, - So ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;
Isaiah 22:10 (show verse)
And the houses of Jerusalem, ye counted, - And brake down the houses, to fortify the wall;
Isaiah 22:11 (show verse)
And a reservoir, ye made between the two walls, for the waters of the ancient pool, - And had no regard unto him that made it, Nor unto him that formed it long ago, had ye respect.
Isaiah 22:12 (show verse)
And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called in that day, - for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare and for girding with sackcloth,
Isaiah 22:13 (show verse)
Then lo! joy and rejoicing, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine, - Let us eat and drink, For to-morrow, we may die!
Isaiah 22:14 (show verse)
Therefore did Yahweh reveal himself in mine ears. Surely there shall be no propitiatory-covering put over this iniquity for you until ye die, Saith My Lord Yahweh of hosts.
Isaiah 22:15 (show verse)
Thus, said My Lord Yahweh, of hosts, Come go in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house:
Isaiah 22:16 (show verse)
What doest thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre, - As one hewing on high his sepulchre, Cutting out in the cliff a habitation for himself?
Isaiah 22:17 (show verse)
Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man, - And roll thee with a roll;
Isaiah 22:18 (show verse)
He will, toss, thee, with a toss, like a ball, into a country wide on both hands, - There, shalt thou die, And there shall thy glorious chariots be the contempt of the house of thy lord.
Isaiah 22:19 (show verse)
Thus will I thrust thee out from thine office, - And from thy station, shall one tear thee down.
Isaiah 22:20 (show verse)
And it shall come to pass in that day, That I will call for my servant, for Eliakim son of Hilkiah,
Isaiah 22:21 (show verse)
And will clothe him with thy tunic And with thy girdle, will I gird him, And thine authority, will I deliver into his hand, - So shall he become a father To the inhabitant of Jerusalem and To the house of Judah.
Isaiah 22:22 (show verse)
And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his shoulder, - And he shall open and none shall shut, And shut and none shall open;
Isaiah 22:23 (show verse)
And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, - And he shall become a throne of glory, to the house of his father;
Isaiah 22:24 (show verse)
And they shall hang upon him all the weight of his fathers house - The offshoots and the side-twigs - All the small vessels, Both the cups and all the jugs
Isaiah 22:25 (show verse)
In that day, - Declareth Yahweh of hosts Shall the peg, give way, that was fastened in a sure place, - Yea it shall be cut off and fall And the burden that was upon it shall perish, For, Yahweh, hath spoken!