Thematic Bible
Isaiah 22:1 (show verse)
[The] oracle of [the] valley of vision: {What business do you have going} up, all of you, to the roofs,
Isaiah 22:2 (show verse)
{noisy}, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain [are] not slain by [the] sword, nor [are they] dead from battle.
Isaiah 22:3 (show verse)
All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of {you who were found} were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away.
Isaiah 22:4 (show verse)
Therefore I said, "Look away from me, let me {weep bitterly}; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
Isaiah 22:5 (show verse)
For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in [the] valley of vision, tearing down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains.
Isaiah 22:6 (show verse)
And Elam lifted up [the] quiver, with chariots [of] men [and] cavalry. And Kir uncovered [the] shield.
Isaiah 22:7 (show verse)
And this happened: the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate.
Isaiah 22:8 (show verse)
And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
Isaiah 22:9 (show verse)
and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
Isaiah 22:10 (show verse)
And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
Isaiah 22:11 (show verse)
And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker, and you did not see {the one who created it long ago}.
Isaiah 22:12 (show verse)
And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding {with} sackcloth.
Isaiah 22:13 (show verse)
But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"
Isaiah 22:14 (show verse)
And it was revealed in my ears [by] Yahweh of hosts: "Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!" says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
Isaiah 22:15 (show verse)
The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this: "Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna, who [is] over the house:
Isaiah 22:16 (show verse)
'What {business do you have} here, and who {do you have} here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave [on] the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?
Isaiah 22:17 (show verse)
Look! Yahweh [is] about to {really hurl} you, man! And he [is] about to grasp you firmly;
Isaiah 22:18 (show verse)
he will wind a winding tightly around you like ball, to a {wide land}. There you shall die, and there the chariots of your splendor [will be], disgrace to your master's house!
Isaiah 22:19 (show verse)
And I will push you from your office, and he will throw you down from your position.
Isaiah 22:20 (show verse)
And this shall happen: On that day I will call to my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah,
Isaiah 22:21 (show verse)
and I will clothe him [with] your tunic, and I will bind your sash firmly about him, and I will put your authority into his hand, and he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
Isaiah 22:22 (show verse)
And I will put the key of the house of David on his shoulder, and he shall open and no one [will be able to] shut; and he shall shut and no one [will be able to] open.
Isaiah 22:23 (show verse)
And I will drive him in [like] a peg into a secure place, and he will become like a throne of glory to the house of his father.
Isaiah 22:24 (show verse)
And they will hang all of the heaviness of his father's house on him, the offspring and the offshoot, all of the small vessels, from the {bowls to the jars}.
Isaiah 22:25 (show verse)
On that day, {declares} Yahweh of hosts, the peg that was driven will move away into a secure place, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that [was] on her will be cut off. For Yahweh has spoken.'"