Isaiah 22

NEW AMERICAN BIBLE	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 Oracle of the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,	1 The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2 O city full of noise and chaos, O wanton town! Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.	2 Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
3 All your leaders fled away together, fled afar off; All who were in you were captured together, captured without the use of a bow.	3 All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.
4 At this I say: Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly; Do not try to comfort me for the ruin of the daughter of my people.	4 Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.
5 It is a day of panic, rout and confusion, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision. Walls crash; they cry for help to the mountains.	5 For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.
6 Elam takes up the quivers, Aram mounts the horses, and Kir uncovers the shields.	6 And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.
7 Your choice valleys are filled with chariots, and horses are posted at the gates,	7 And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.
8 and shelter over Judah is removed. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest;	8 And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.
9 you saw that the breaches in the City of David were many; you collected the water of the lower pool.	9 And you shall see the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you have gathered together the waters of the lower pool,
10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, tearing some down to strengthen the wall;	10 And have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and broken down houses to fortify 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 city's Maker, nor did you consider him who built it long ago.	11 And you made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: and you have not looked up to the maker thereof, nor regarded him even at a distance, that wrought it long ago.
12 On that day the Lord, the GOD of hosts, called on you To weep and mourn, to shave your head and put on sackcloth.	12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
13 But look! you feast and celebrate, you slaughter oxen and butcher sheep, You eat meat and drink wine: "Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!"	13 And behold joy and gladness, killing calves, and slaying rams, eating flesh, and drinking wine: Let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
14 This reaches the ears of the LORD of hosts-- You shall not be pardoned this wickedness till you die, says the Lord, the GOD of hosts.	14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord, the GOD of hosts: Up, go to that official, Shebna, master of the palace,	15 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts: Go, get thee in to him that dwelleth in the tabernacle, to Sobna who is over the temple: and thou shalt say to him:
16 Who has hewn for himself a sepulcher on a height and carved his tomb in the rock: "What are you doing here, and what people have you here, that here you have hewn for yourself a tomb?"	16 What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.
17 The LORD shall hurl you down headlong, mortal man! He shall grip you firmly	17 Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.
18 And roll you up and toss you like a ball into an open land To perish there, you and the chariots you glory in, you disgrace to your master's house!	18 He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.
19 I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station.	19 And I will drive thee out From thy station, and depose thee from thy ministry.
20 On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah;	20 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliacim the son of Helcias,
21 I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and give over to him your authority. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.	21 And I will clothe him with thy robe, and will strengthen him with thy girdle, and will give thy power into his hand: and he shall be as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Juda.
22 I will place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; when he opens, no one shall shut, when he shuts, no one shall open.	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 like a peg in a sure spot, to be a place of honor for his family;	23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place, and he shall be for a throne of glory to the house of his father.
24 On him shall hang all the glory of his family: descendants and offspring, all the little dishes, from bowls to jugs.	24 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, divers kinds of vessels, every little vessel, from the vessels of cups even to every instrument of music.
25 On that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg fixed in a sure spot shall give way, break off and fall, and the weight that hung on it shall be done away with; for the LORD has spoken.	25 dummy verses inserted by amos
	26 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg be removed, that was fastened in the sure place: and it shall be broken and shall fall: and that which hung thereon, shall perish, because the Lord hath spoken it.