Verse 15
Isaiah 22:15
Bible in Basic English
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The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,
Original Language Text
hebrew
כֹּ֥ה אָמַ֛ר אֲדֹנָ֥/י יְהוִ֖ה צְבָא֑וֹת לֶךְ בֹּא֙ אֶל הַ/סֹּכֵ֣ן הַ/זֶּ֔ה עַל שֶׁבְנָ֖א אֲשֶׁ֥ר עַל הַ/בָּֽיִת
English Translation
Thus says my Lord, Yahweh of Hosts: Go, come to this steward who is over the house.
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Chapter 22 Context
1
The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
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You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been p...
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All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
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4
For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be...
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5
For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies...
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6
And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered...
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7
And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions i...
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8
He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in...
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9
And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters...
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10
And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
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11
And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no t...
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12
And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting...
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13
But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, ther...
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14
And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your dea...
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15
The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the hou...
16
Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
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17
See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,
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18
Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will co...
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19
And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
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20
And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:
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21
And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into hi...
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22
And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by...
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23
And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's f...
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24
And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small ve...
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In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be c...
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