Read Isaiah 22

World English Bible · 25 verses

1. ¹ The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planned it long ago.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ and behold, there is joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you disgrace of your lord’s house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
20. ²⁰ It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
21. ²¹ and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
22. ²² I will lay the key of David’s house on his shoulder. He will open, and no one will shut. He will shut, and no one will open.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
23. ²³ I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
24. ²⁴ They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the pitchers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
25. ²⁵ “In that day,” says Yahweh of Armies, “the nail that was fastened in a sure place will give way. It will be cut down and fall. The burden that was on it will be cut off, for Yahweh has spoken it.”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

Scripture: World English Bible, public domain, eBible.org