Isaiah 22:15-25

Common English Bible

An administrator rebuked

¹⁵The Lord God of heavenly forces says, Go now to this official, to Shebna, who is in charge of the house, and say to him:
¹⁶    What do you have here—and whom do you have here—
    that you have hewed out a tomb for yourself,
        you who cuts his grave on high and carves himself a home in the cliff?
¹⁷The Lord is about to hurl you down, mighty man!

    He is surely going to cover you with darkness;
¹⁸    he will indeed unroll your head wrapping,
        rolling it like a ball into the open country.
        There you will die, with your glorious chariots,
        you disgrace to the house of your master!
¹⁹I will thrust you from your monument;
    you will be pulled down from your platform.
²⁰On that day, I will call my servant
    Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son.
²¹I will give him your robe and wrap him in your sash,
    and I will hand over to him your authority.
He will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
    and to the house of Judah.
²²I will place the key to David’s house on his shoulder;
    what he opens no one will close,
    and what he closes no one will open.
²³I will fasten him securely like a tent peg,
    and he will be a throne of honor for his ancestors’ house.

²⁴All the honor of his household will hang on him, the offspring and the offshoots, every little dish, every bowl, every jar.

²⁵On that day, says the Lord of heavenly forces, the peg that is fastened securely will give way; it will be cut down, and it will fall, and all the load hanging on it will be lost. The Lord has spoken.

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