Isaiah 22

1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?Cross-references: Gen 21:17 · Deut 22:8 · Judg 18:23 · 1Sam 3:1 · 1Sam 11:5 · 2Sam 14:5 · +14 more

2You 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.Cross-references: Isa 22:12 · Isa 23:7 · Isa 32:13 · Isa 37:33 · Isa 37:36 · Jer 14:18 · +5 more

3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.Cross-references: 2Ki 25:4 · 2Ki 25:18 · Isa 3:1 · Jer 39:4 · Jer 52:24

4Therefore 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.Cross-references: Ruth 1:20 · Ps 77:2 · Isa 15:3 · Isa 33:7 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 6:26 · +9 more

5For 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.”Cross-references: 2Ki 19:3 · 2Ki 25:10 · Esth 3:15 · Isa 5:5 · Isa 10:6 · Isa 22:1 · +11 more

6Elam carried his quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.Cross-references: Gen 10:22 · 2Ki 16:9 · Isa 15:1 · Isa 21:2 · Jer 49:35 · Amos 1:5 · +1 more

7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.Cross-references: Isa 8:7 · Isa 10:28 · Isa 37:34 · Jer 39:1

8He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.Cross-references: 1Ki 7:2 · 1Ki 10:17 · 1Ki 14:27 · Song 4:4 · Isa 36:1

9You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.Cross-references: 2Ki 20:20 · 2Chr 32:1 · 2Chr 32:30 · Neh 3:16

10You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.

11You 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.Cross-references: 2Ki 20:20 · 2Ki 25:4 · 2Chr 6:6 · 2Chr 16:7 · 2Chr 32:3 · Neh 3:16 · +7 more

12In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;Cross-references: 2Chr 35:25 · Ezra 9:3 · Neh 8:9 · Neh 9:9 · Job 1:20 · Eccl 3:4 · +9 more

13and 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.”Cross-references: Isa 5:12 · Isa 5:22 · Isa 21:4 · Isa 28:7 · Isa 56:12 · Amos 6:3 · +3 more

14Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.Cross-references: Num 15:25 · 1Sam 3:14 · 1Sam 9:15 · Isa 5:9 · Isa 13:11 · Isa 26:21 · +6 more

15The Lord, Yahweh of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,Cross-references: 1Ki 4:6 · 2Ki 10:5 · 2Ki 18:18 · 2Ki 18:26 · 2Ki 18:37 · 2Ki 19:2 · +6 more

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!”Cross-references: 2Sam 18:18 · 2Chr 16:14 · Job 3:14 · Isa 14:18 · Isa 52:5 · Mic 2:10 · +1 more

17Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.Cross-references: Esth 7:8 · Job 9:24 · Jer 14:3

18He 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.Cross-references: Isa 17:13 · Amos 7:17

19I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.Cross-references: Job 40:11 · Ps 75:6 · Ezek 17:24 · Luke 1:52

20It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,Cross-references: 2Ki 18:18 · 2Ki 18:37 · Isa 36:3 · Isa 36:11 · Isa 36:22 · Isa 37:2

21and 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:42 · Gen 45:8 · 1Sam 18:4 · Esth 8:2 · Esth 8:15 · Isa 9:6

22I 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.Cross-references: Job 12:14 · Isa 7:2 · Matt 16:18 · Matt 18:18 · Rev 1:18 · Rev 3:7

23I will fasten him like a nail in a sure place. He will be for a throne of glory to his father’s house.Cross-references: Gen 45:9 · 1Sam 2:8 · Ezra 9:8 · Esth 4:14 · Esth 10:3 · Job 36:7 · +4 more

24They 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.Cross-references: Gen 41:44 · Gen 47:11 · Ezek 15:3 · Dan 6:1 · Matt 28:18 · John 5:22 · +3 more

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.”Cross-references: Esth 9:5 · Esth 9:24 · Ps 52:5 · Ps 146:3 · Isa 22:15 · Isa 22:23 · +8 more