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.’

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.

XXIII. The burden of Tyre.

1 Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there isno house, no entering in : from the land of Chittim it is revealed to them.

2 Be silent, ye inhabitants of the isle: the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, replenished thee.

3 And on great waters the seed of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue ; and it was the gain of nations.

4 Be thou ashamed, O Zidon ; for the sea, the stronghold of the sea, speaketh: I have not travailed, nor brought forth, neither have I nourished up young men, nor brought up virgins.

5 When the report cometh to Egypt, they shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre.

6 Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the isle.

24. ‘honour’: word also means ‘weight.’2. ‘merchants,’ sing. collective.3. Or, ‘she was the mart of nations.5 init. Or, ‘ As was the report concerning Egypt...

7 Is this your jubilant one? from the ancient days is her antiquity; her feet bore her far away to sojourn.

8 Who hath ’this against Tyre, the crowning city? whose merchants were princes, whose traffickers were the honourable of the earth.