Isaiah Chapter 22

• Isaiah 22:1
  Isaiah.
• Isaiah 22:2
  The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?
• Isaiah 22:3
  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.
• Isaiah 22:4
  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.
• Isaiah 22:5
  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.
• Isaiah 22:6
  For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity from the Lord, GOD of Armies, in the valley of vision, a breaking down of the wa...
• Isaiah 22:7
  Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
• Isaiah 22:8
  Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
• Isaiah 22:9
  He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
• Isaiah 22:10
  You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
• Isaiah 22:11
  You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
• Isaiah 22:12
  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 resp...
• Isaiah 22:13
  In that day, the Lord, GOD of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
• Isaiah 22:14
  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...
• Isaiah 22:15
  The LORD of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, GOD of Armies.
• Isaiah 22:16
  The Lord, GOD of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
• Isaiah 22:17
  ‘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...
• Isaiah 22:18
  Behold, the LORD will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
• Isaiah 22:19
  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 wi...
• Isaiah 22:20
  I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
• Isaiah 22:21
  It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
• Isaiah 22:22
  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 i...
• Isaiah 22:23
  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.
• Isaiah 22:24
  I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.
• Isaiah 22:25
  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.
• Isaiah 22:26
  “In that day,” says the LORD 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 o...