# Isaiah 22

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/22

Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. An oracle concerning the Valley of Vision: What is wrong with you now, that all of you have gone up on the rooftops,
2. you city full of commotion, you noisy town, you exultant city? Your slain were not slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.
3. All your leaders have fled together; they were taken captive without a bow being drawn. All your people who were found were taken captive together, though they had fled far away.
4. Therefore I said, “Look away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5. For the Lord Yahweh of Armies has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and of crying out to the mountains.
6. Elam takes up the quiver, with chariots, men, and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.
7. Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen take their positions at the gate.
8. He has stripped away the covering of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.
9. You saw that the breaches in the City of David were many, and you collected the waters of the Lower Pool.
10. You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
11. You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the Old Pool. But you did not look to the one who made it, or consider the one who planned it long ago.
12. On that day the Lord Yahweh of Armies called for weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and putting on sackcloth.
13. But look—joy and celebration, killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine! “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14. Yahweh of Armies has revealed this in my hearing: Surely this guilt will not be atoned for until you die, says the Lord Yahweh of Armies.
15. This is what the Lord Yahweh of Armies says: Go to this steward, to Shebna, who is in charge of the palace:
16. What are you doing here, and whom do you have here, that you have cut out a tomb for yourself here—cutting out his tomb on the height, carving a resting place for himself in the rock?
17. Look, Yahweh is about to hurl you away violently, you strong man. He will seize you firmly,
18. wind you up tightly, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain, you disgrace to your master’s house.
19. I will thrust you from your office, and he will pull you down from your post.
20. On that day I will call my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21. I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to the people of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22. I will place the key of the house of David on his shoulder. What he opens, no one will shut; what he shuts, no one will open.
23. I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of honor for his father’s house.
24. They will hang on him the whole weight of his father’s house, offspring and offshoots, all the small vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25. On that day, declares Yahweh of Armies, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be cut down and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken.

## Nearby chapters

[Isaiah 21](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/21.md)
[Isaiah 23](https://www.lumin.faith/read/isaiah/23.md)

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