Isaias

1 What hath befallen thee now, that ye are all gone up to vain houses ?

2 The city is filled with men shouting; thy smitten ones are not smitten with the sword, nor thy dead men dead in war.

3 All thy rulers are fled; and they that are taken have been cruelly bound, and the strong ones in thee are fled far away.

4 Therefore I said, Let me go, I will weep bitterly; persist not to comfort me, for the blow of the daughter of my race.

5 For it is a day of confusion and destruction, and of trampling down, and a wandering from the Lord of Hosts; in the valley of Zion they wander, from small to great they wander (on) to the mountains.

6 And the Elamites took quivers; mounted men upon horses, and a gathering of an array.

7 And there shall be thy chosen valleys, they shall be filled with chariots, and the horsemen shall bar thy gates :

8 And they shall lay open the gates of Judah; and they shall look in that day unto the chosen houses of the city.

9 And they shall lay open the secret things of the houses of the citadel of David. And they saw that they were more in number, and that they had turned off the water of the old pool into the city,

10 And that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem for a fortification of the wall for the city.

11 And ye made for yourselves a (pool of) water between the two walls, further inward than the old pool ; and ye looked not to him who made it from the beginning, and ye saw not him that

12 And the Lord of Hosts called it in that day weeping, and beating of the breast, and shaving of the head, and girding with

13 But they on their part made merriment and exultation, slaying oxen and slaughtering sheep, so as to eat flesh and drink wine, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.

14 And this is revealed in the ears of the Lord of Hosts, that this sin shall not be forgiven you until ye die.

15 Thus saith the Lord of Hosts, Go into the temple-chamber, unto Shebna the <treasurer> and say to

16 What dost thou here, and what hast thou to do here, that thou hast. hewn for thyself here a monument, and made for thyself a monument on high, and graven an habitation for thyself in a rock?

17 Behold now, the Lord of Hosts will cast out and will root out a man, and will take away thy robe, and thy crown of glory, 18 And shall hurl thee into a land, great without measure, and there shalt thou die; and shall turn thy fine chariot to disgrace, and the house of thy ruler to be trodden down,

19 And thou shalt be taken from thy stewardship, and from thy state.

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

21 And I will put on him thy robe, and thy crown will I give him, and thy power; and thy stewardship will I give into his halnds; and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem.