Isaiah 22

CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN	Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
1 The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?	1 The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,
2 Filled with clamor, a busy city, an exultant city: your dead have not been slain by the sword, nor did they die in battle.	2 you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled together, and they have been bound by hardship. All who were found were chained together. They have fled far away.	3 All your rulers have fled together, without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away.
4 For this reason, I said: “Depart from me. I will weep bitterly. Make no attempt to console me, over the devastation of the daughter of my people.”	4 Therefore I said: "Look away from me, let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people."
5 For it is a day of death, and of trampling, and of weeping to the Lord, the God of hosts, in the valley of vision: examining the wall and the magnificence above the mountain.	5 For the Lord GOD of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.
6 And Elam took up the quiver and the chariot of the horseman; and he stripped the wall of the shield.	6 And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7 And your elect valleys will be filled with chariots, and the horsemen will position themselves at the gates.	7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.
8 And the covering of Judah will be exposed, and in that day, you will see the weaponry of the forest house.	8 He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
9 And you will see breaches in the city of David, for these have been multiplied. But you have gathered together the waters of the lower fish-pool.	9 and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many, and you collected the waters of the lower pool,
10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem. And you have destroyed the houses in order to fortify the wall.	10 and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11 And you have made a pit between two walls for the waters of the ancient fish-pool. But you have not gazed upward to him who made it, and you have not considered, even from a distance, its Maker.	11 You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or have regard for him who planned it long ago.
12 And in that day, the Lord, the God of hosts, will call to weeping and mourning, to baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.	12 In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called to weeping and mourning, to baldness and girding with sackcloth;
13 But behold: gladness and rejoicing, the killing of calves and the slaughter of rams, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”	13 and behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."
14 And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you, until you die,” says the Lord, the God of hosts.	14 The LORD of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: "Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you till you die," says the Lord GOD of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord, the God of hosts: Go forth and enter to him who lives in the tabernacle, to Shebna, who is in charge of the temple, and you shall say to him:	15 Thus says the Lord GOD of hosts, "Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:
16 “What are you here, or who are you claiming to be here? For you have hewn a sepulcher for yourself here. You have diligently hewn a memorial in a rock, as a tabernacle to yourself.	16 What have you to do here and whom have you here, that you have hewn here a tomb for yourself, you who hew a tomb on the height, and carve a habitation for yourself in the rock?
17 Behold, the Lord will cause you to be carried away, like a domesticated rooster, and he will remove you, like an outer garment.	17 Behold, the LORD will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you,
18 He will crown you with a crown of tribulation. He will toss you like a ball into a broad and spacious land. There you will die, and there the chariot of your glory will be, for it is a shame to the house of your Lord.”	18 and whirl you round and round, and throw you like a ball into a wide land; there you shall die, and there shall be your splendid chariots, you shame of your master's house.
19 And I will expel you from your station, and I will depose you from your ministry.	19 I will thrust you from your office, and you will be cast down from your station.
20 And this shall be in that day: I will call my servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.	20 In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
21 And I will clothe him with your vestment, and I will strengthen him with your belt, and I will give your authority to his hand. And he shall be like a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.	21 and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your girdle on him, and will commit your authority to his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 And I will place the key of the house of David upon his shoulder. And when he opens, no one will close. And when he closes, no one will open.	22 And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David; he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a trustworthy place. And he will be upon a throne of glory in the house of his father.	23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father's house.
24 And they will suspend over him all the glory of his father’s house: various kinds of vessels and every little article, from the vessels of bowls even to every instrument of music.	24 And they will hang on him the whole weight of his father's house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.
25 In that day, says the Lord of hosts, the peg which was fastened in a trustworthy place shall be taken away. And he will be broken, and he will fall, and he will perish, along with all that had depended upon him, because the Lord has spoken it.	25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a sure place will give way; and it will be cut down and fall, and the burden that was upon it will be cut off, for the LORD has spoken."