Isaiah 22:15-23:18

New King James Version

“Go, proceed to this steward,
To ^(A)Shebna, who is over the house, and say:
¹⁶ ‘What have you here, and whom have you here,
That you have hewn a sepulcher here,
As he ^(B)who hews himself a sepulcher on high,
Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?
¹⁷ Indeed, the Lord will throw you away violently,
O mighty man,
^(C)And will surely seize you.
¹⁸ He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball
Into a large country;
There you shall die, and there ^(D)your glorious chariots
Shall be the shame of your master’s house.
¹⁹ So I will drive you out of your office,
And from your position ^[a]he will pull you down.

²⁰ ‘Then it shall be in that day,
That I will call My servant ^(E)Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;
²¹ I will clothe him with your robe
And strengthen him with your belt;
I will commit your responsibility into his hand.
He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.
²² The key of the house of David
I will lay on his ^(F)shoulder;
So he shall ^(G)open, and no one shall shut;
And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
²³ I will fasten him as ^(H)a peg in a secure place,
And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.

Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For it is laid waste,
So that there is no house, no harbor;
From the land of ^[c]Cyprus it is revealed to them.

² Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You merchants of Sidon,
^[d]Whom those who cross the sea have filled.
³ And on great waters the grain of Shihor,
The harvest of ^[e]the River, is her revenue;
And ^(J)she is a marketplace for the nations.

⁴ Be ashamed, O Sidon;
For the sea has spoken,
The strength of the sea, saying,
“I do not labor, nor bring forth children;
Neither do I rear young men,
Nor bring up virgins.”
^5 (K)When the report reaches Egypt,
They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.

⁶ Cross over to Tarshish;
Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!
⁷ Is this your ^(L)joyous city,
Whose antiquity is from ancient days,
Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?
⁸ Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, ^(M)the crowning city,
Whose merchants are princes,
Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?
⁹ The Lord of hosts has ^(N)purposed it,
To ^[f]bring to dishonor the ^(O)pride of all glory,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

¹⁰ Overflow through your land like ^[g]the River,
O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more ^[h]strength.
¹¹ He stretched out His hand over the sea,
He shook the kingdoms;
The Lord has given a commandment ^(P)against Canaan
To destroy its strongholds.
¹² And He said, “You will rejoice no more,
O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise, ^(Q)cross over to Cyprus;
There also you will have no rest.”

¹³ Behold, the land of the ^(R)Chaldeans,
This people which was not;
Assyria founded it for ^(S)wild beasts of the desert.
They set up its towers,
They raised up its palaces,
And brought it to ruin.

^14 (T)Wail, you ships of Tarshish!
For your strength is laid waste.

¹⁶ “Take a harp, go about the city,
You forgotten harlot;
Make sweet melody, sing many songs,
That you may be remembered.”