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1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyes city: your slain [men are] not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, [which] have fled from far.
4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
6 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men [and] horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And it will come to pass, [that] your choicest valleys will be full of chariots, and the horsemen will set themselves in array at the gate.
8 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you looked in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9 You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have you broken down to fortify the wall.
11 You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked to the maker of it, neither had respect to him that fashioned 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, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we will die.
14 And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, Surely this iniquity will not be purged from you till you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, [even] to Shebna, which [is] over the house, [and say],
16 What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulchre here, [as] he that hews him out a sepulchre on high, [and] that cut out a habitation for himself in a rock?
17 Behold, the LORD [Yahweh] will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you.
18 He will surely violently turn and toss you [like] a ball into a large country: there will you die, and there the chariots of your glory [will be] the shame of your lord's house.
19 And I will drive you from your station, and from your state will he pull you down.
20 And it will come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, and I will commit your government into his hand: and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he will open, and none will shut; and he will shut, and none will open.
23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure place; and he will be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
24 And they will hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
25 In that day, says the LORD [Yahweh] of hosts, will the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that [was] upon it will be cut off: for the LORD [Yahweh] has spoken [it].