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The Prophecy
of Isaias 22
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee
also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy
slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard:
all that were found, are bound together, they are fled
far off.
Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly:
labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the
daughter of my people.
For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and
of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley
of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon
the mountain.
And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman,
and the shield was taken down from the wall.
And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and
the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.
And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou
shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the
forest.
And you shall see the breaches of the city of David,
that they are many: and you have gathered together the
waters of the lower pool,
And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken
down houses to fortify the wall.
And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water
of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker
thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought
it long ago.
And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call
to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding
with sackcloth:
And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying
rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and
drink; for to morrow we shall die.
And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my
ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you
till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to
him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is
over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:
What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here?
for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou
hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place,
a dwelling for thyself in a rock.
Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away,
as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up
as a garment.
He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will
toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country:
there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of
thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.
And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose
thee from thy ministry.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call
my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,
And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen
him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his
hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants
of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.
And I will lay the key of the house of David upon his
shoulder: and he shall open, and none shall shut: and
he shall shut, and none shall open.
And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and
he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his
father.
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's
house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel,
from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of
music.
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg
be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and
it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung
thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken
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