Isaiah 22

22 ¹An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops, ^a a v1 Valley of Vision: a poetic name for Jerusalem, likely evoking the deep valleys surrounding the city. ²you town full of noise, you wild, chaotic city, you reveling town? Your dead were not killed by the sword, nor did they die in battle. ³All your rulers fled together; they were captured without a bow being drawn. All of you who were found were taken captive together, though you had fled far away. ⁴So I said, "Look away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me over the ruin of the daughter of my people." ⁵For the Father of heaven's armies has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—walls battered down and a cry for help echoing to the mountains. ⁶Elam took up the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir bared their shields. ⁷Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their positions at the gates. ⁸Our Father stripped away the defenses of Judah. And in that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest, ^b b v8 House of the Forest: Solomon's large armory in Jerusalem, named for its many cedar columns. ⁹and you saw how many breaches there were in the city of David. You collected the water of the lower pool, ¹⁰and you counted the houses of Jerusalem and tore some down to fortify the wall. ¹¹You built a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, nor consider our Father who planned it long ago. ¹²In that day the Father of heaven's armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and mourning clothes. ¹³But instead there was joy and celebration, slaughtering cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"

¹⁴The Father of heaven's armies has revealed this to me: "Surely this sin will not be wiped away from you until you die," says the Father of heaven's armies.

¹⁵This is what the Father of heaven's armies says: Go to this steward, Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: ¹⁶What are you doing here, and who gave you the right to be here, that you have cut out a tomb for yourself here—carving your grave high up on the heights, chiseling your resting place in the rock? ¹⁷Look, our Father is about to hurl you away violently, you strong man; he will seize firm hold of you. ¹⁸He will wind you up tightly and fling you like a ball into a vast open land. There you will die, and there your splendid chariots will lie—you disgrace to your master's house. ¹⁹I will depose you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your post.

²⁰In that day I will summon my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah, ²¹I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash on him, and I will hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to the people of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. ²²I will place the key of the house of David on his shoulder; what he opens no one will shut, and what he shuts no one will open. ^c c v22 Jesus applies this verse to himself in Revelation 3:7 — Eliakim foreshadows the eternal Son who holds the key of David. ²³I will drive him in like a peg in a firm place, and he will become a seat of honor for his father's house. ²⁴They will hang on him the whole weight of his father's house—the offspring and the offshoots, every small vessel, from the bowls to all the jars. ²⁵In that day, declares the Father of heaven's armies, the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off—for our Father has spoken.