Isaias

Hebrew Bible

Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904

8 And he removed the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

9 And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool

10 And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses did ye break down to fortify the wall.

[*](3. ‘without’: possibly, ‘by the bow.)[*](8. Perhaps, ‘armoury of the house....)
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11 And ye made a lake between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye looked not unto him that made it, neither had respect unto him that formed it long ago.

12 And in that day did the Lord God of Hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

13 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: (Let us) eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die.

14 And the Lord of Hosts revealed himself in mine ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be expiated for you till ye die, saith the Lord God of Hosts.

15 Thus saith the Lord God of Hosts, Go, get thee unto this steward, unto Shebna which is over the house;

16 What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here? Hewing him out his sepulchre on high, graving a habitation in the rock for him !

17 Behold, the Lord will hurl thee with the hurling of a mighty man, and seize thee with a seizing.

18 He will roll thee, rolling up into a roll, like a ball into a far country; there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be: thou shame of thy lord’s house.

19 And I will thrust thee from thy station, and from thine office shall he pull thee down.

20 And it shall be in that day, I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah;

21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will give thy authority into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

[*](16. i.e. prob. ‘What hast thou to do...whom hast thou of thine?’)[*](17. i.e. ‘seize thee fast’: or, ‘cover thee with a covering.’)[*](18. Lit. ‘thither shalt thou (go to) die.’)[*](21. ‘strengthen’: or, ‘bind him with thy girdle.’)
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22 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:

23 I will fix him as a peg in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of honour to his father's house.

24 And they shall hang upon him all the honour of his father's house, the offspring and the offshoots, all small vessels, from the vessels of bowls and even to the vessels of jars.

25 In that day, saith the LORD of Hosts, shall the peg that is fixed in a sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and :the burden that is upon it shall be cut off; for the Lord hath spoken it.