Isa 22 | EngLXX | STEP | THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that now you⌃ are all gone upto the housetops which help you not?

Isaiah 22

1 THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that now you⌃ are all gone upto the housetops which help you not? 2 The city is filled with shoutingmen: your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle. 3 All your princes have fled, andyour captives are tightly bound, and the mightymen in you have fled far away. 4 Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for thebreach of the daughter of my people. 5 Forit is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, andthere is perplexitysent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the leastto the greatest on the mountains. 6 And the Elamites tooktheir quivers, andthere were men mounted on horses, andthere was a gathering for battle. 7 And it shall bethat your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates. 8 And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choicehouses of the city. 9 And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and theysaw that they were many, and that onehad turned the water of the old pool into the city; 10 and that theyhad pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city. 11 And you⌃ procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool:but you⌃ looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it. 12 And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, andbaldness, and for girding with sackcloth: 13 but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eatflesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we die. 14 And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall notbe forgiven you, until you⌃ die. 15 Thus says the Lord of hosts, Go into the chamber, to Somnas the treasurer, and say tohim, Why are you here? 16 and what have you to do here, that you have here hewn yourself a sepulchre, and madeyourself a sepulchre on high, and have graven for yourself a dwelling in the rock? 17 Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroysuch a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown, 18 and will cast you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die: and he willbring your fair chariot to shame, and the house of your prince to be trodden down. 19 And you shall be removed from your stewardship, and from your place. 20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son ofChelcias: 21 and I will put on him your robe, and I will grant him your crown with power, and I willgive your stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, andto them that dwell in Juda. 22 And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none tospeak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of Davidupon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, andthere shall be none to open. 23 And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne ofhis father's house. 24 And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from theleast to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day. 25 Thus says the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removedand be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: for theLord has spoken it.