Elam bore the quiver, with troops of men, even horsemen;And Kir uncovered the shield.7And it came to pass, when thy choicest valleys were full of chariots,And the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate,8And the covering of Judah was laid bare,
that thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest. 9And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and ye broke down the houses to fortify the wall; 11ye made also a basin between the two walls for the water of the old pool—
But ye looked not unto Him that had done this,Neither had ye respect unto Him that fashioned it long ago.12And in that day did the Lord, the God of hosts, callTo weeping, and to lamentation, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth;13And behold joy and gladness,Slaying oxen and killing sheep,Eating flesh and drinking wine—'Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die!'14And the Lord of hosts revealed Himself in mine ears:Surely this iniquity shall not be expiated by you till ye die,Saith the Lord, the God of hosts. 15Thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts:Go, get thee unto this steward,Even unto Shebna, who is over the house:16What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here,That thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre,Thou that hewest thee out a sepulchre on high,And gravest a habitation for thyself in the rock?17Behold, the Lord will hurl thee up and down with a man's throw;Yea, He will wind thee round and round;18He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country;There shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory,Thou shame of the lord's house.19And I will thrust thee from thy post,And from thy station shalt thou be pulled down.20And it shall come to pass in that day,That I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah;21And I will clothe him with thy robe,And bind him with thy girdle,And I will commit thy government into his hand;And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.22And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder;And he shall open, and none shall shut;And he shall shut, and none shall open.23And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place;And he shall be for a throne of honour to his father's house.
24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups even to all the vessels of flagons. 25In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the peg that was fastened in a sure place give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall, and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for the Lord hath spoken it.
23The burden of Tyre.
Howl, ye ships of Tarshish,For it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in;From the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.2Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast-land;Thou whom the merchants of Zidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.3And on great waters the seed of Shihor,The harvest of the Nile, was her revenue;And she was the mart of nations.4Be thou ashamed, O Zidon; for the sea hath spoken,The stronghold of the sea, saying:'I have not travailed, nor brought forth,Neither have I reared young men, nor brought up virgins.'5When the report cometh to Egypt,They shall be sorely pained at the report of Tyre. 6Pass ye over to Tarshish; howl, ye inhabitants of the coast-land.7Is this your joyous city,Whose feet in antiquity,In ancient days,Carried her afar off to sojourn?8Who hath devised this against Tyre, the crowning city,Whose merchants are princes,Whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?9The Lord of hosts hath devised it,To pollute the pride of all glory,To bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.10Overflow thy land as the Nile,O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle any more.11He hath stretched out His hand over the sea,He hath shaken the kingdoms;The Lord hath given commandment concerning Canaan,To destroy the strongholds thereof;12And He said: 'Thou shalt no more rejoice.'O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Zidon,Arise, pass over to Kittim;Even there shalt thou have no rest.
13Behold, the land of the Chaldeans—this is the people that was not, when Asshur founded it for shipmen—they set up their towers, they overthrew the palaces thereof; it is made a ruin.
14Howl, ye ships of Tarshish,For your stronghold is laid waste.
15And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king; after the end of seventy years it shall fare with Tyre as in the song of the harlot:
16Take a harp,Go about the city,Thou harlot long forgotten;Make sweet melody,Sing many songs,That thou mayest be remembered.
17And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the Lord will remember Tyre, and she shall return to her hire, and shall have commerce with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth. 18And her gain and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord; it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her gain shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat their fill, and for stately clothing.
24Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty and maketh it waste,And turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest;As with the servant, so with his master;As with the maid, so with her mistress;As with the buyer, so with the seller;As with the lender, so with the borrower;As with the creditor, so with the debtor.3The earth shall be utterly emptied, and clean despoiled;For the Lord hath spoken this word.4The earth fainteth and fadeth away,The world faileth and fadeth away,The lofty people of the earth do fail.5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof;Because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statute,Broken the everlasting covenant.6Therefore hath a curse devoured the earth,And they that dwell therein are found guilty;Therefore the inhabitants of the earth waste away,And men are left few.7The new wine faileth, the vine fadeth;All the merry-hearted do sigh.8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth,The noise of them that rejoice endeth,The joy of the harp ceaseth.9They drink not wine with a song;Strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.10Broken down is the city of wasteness;Every house is shut up, that none may come in.11There is a crying in the streets amidst the wine;All joy is darkened,The mirth of the land is gone.12In the city is left desolation,And the gate is smitten unto ruin.13For thus shall it be in the midst of the earth, among the peoples,As at the beating of an olive-tree,As at the gleanings when the vintage is done.14Those yonder lift up their voice, they sing for joy;For the majesty of the Lord they shout from the sea:15'Therefore glorify ye the Lord in the regions of light,Even the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, in the isles of the sea.' 16From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: 'Glory to the righteous.'But I say: I waste away, I waste away, woe is me!The treacherous deal treacherously;Yea, the treacherous deal very treacherously.17Terror, and the pit, and the trap, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.18And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the terror shall fall into the pit;And he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the trap;For the windows on high are opened,And the foundations of the earth do shake;19The earth is broken, broken down,The earth is crumbled in pieces,The earth trembleth and tottereth;20The earth reeleth to and fro like a drunken man,And swayeth to and fro as a lodge;And the transgression thereof is heavy upon it,And it shall fall, and not rise again.21And it shall come to pass in that day,That the Lord will punish the host of the high heaven on high,And the kings of the earth upon the earth.22And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the dungeon,And shall be shut up in the prison,And after many days shall they be punished.23Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed;For the Lord of hosts will reign in mount Zion,And in Jerusalem, and before His elders shall be Glory. 25O Lord, Thou art my God,I will exalt Thee, I will praise Thy name,For Thou hast done wonderful things;Even counsels of old, in faithfulness and truth.2For Thou hast made of a city a heap,Of a fortified city a ruin;A castle of strangers
