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| 1 The oracle on the valley of vision,–What aileth thee, then, That thou art wholly gone up to the house-tops? |
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| 2 With tumults, art thou filled, thou citadel in commotion! city exultant! Thy slain, are, Not the slain, of the sword, Nor the dead in battle. |
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| 3 All thy ruler, having fled, together, by the bow, are taken captive: All found in thee have been taken captive, together, Far away, have they fled. |
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| 4 For this cause, I said–Look away from me, Bitterly, will I weep,–Do not press to comfort me, For the ruin of the daughter of my people. |
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| 5 For, a day of confusion and downtreading and perplexity, pertaineth to My Lord Yahweh of hosts, in the valley of vision, an undermining of walls, and a crying for help to the mountain. |
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| 6 Yea, Elam, beareth the quiver, With trains of men, [and] horsemen,–And, Kir, hath uncovered the shield. |
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| 7 And it hath come to pass that, the choice of thy vales, are full of chariots; Yea, the horsemen, have set themselves, in array, at the gate. |
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| 8 Then removed he the veil of Judah,–Yea thou didst peer, on that day, into the armoury of the forest-house; |
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| 9 And, the breaches in the city of David, ye beheld, for they were many,–So ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool; |
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| 10 And, the houses of Jerusalem, ye counted,–And brake down the houses, to fortify the wall; |
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| 11 And a reservoir, ye made, between the two walls, for the waters of the ancient pool,–And had no regard unto him that made it, Nor, unto him that formed it long ago, had ye respect. |
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| 12 And, when My Lord Yahweh of hosts called, in that day,–for weeping, and for lamentation, and for shaving bare, and for girding with sackcloth, |
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| 13 Then lo! joy and rejoicing, killing oxen, and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine,–Let us eat and drink, For, tomorrow, we may die! |
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| 14 Therefore did Yahweh reveal himself in mine ears, Surely there shall be no propitiatory-covering put over this iniquity for you, until ye die, Saith My Lord, Yahweh, of hosts. |
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| 15 Thus, said My Lord Yahweh, of hosts, Come, go in unto this steward, Unto Shebna, who is over the house: |
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| 16 What doest thou here? And whom hast thou here? That thou hast hewn for thyself here a sepulchre,–As one hewing on high, his sepulchre, Cutting out in the cliff, a habitation for himself? |
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| 17 Lo! Yahweh, is about to hurl thee, with a hurl, O mighty man,–And roll thee with a roll; |
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| 18 He will, toss, thee, with a toss, like a ball, into a country wide on both hands,–There, shalt thou die, And, there, shall thy glorious, chariots be the contempt of the house of thy lord. |
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| 19 Thus will I thrust thee out from thine office,–And, from thy station, shall one tear thee down. |
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| 20 And it shall come to pass, in that day, That I will call for my servant, for Eliakim, son of Hilkiah, |
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| 21 And will clothe him with thy tunic, And, with thy girdle, will I gird him, And, thine authority, will I deliver into his hand,–So shall he become a father, To the inhabitant of Jerusalem, and, To the house of Judah. |
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| 22 And I will lay the key of the house of David, upon his shoulder,–And he shall open, and none, shall shut, And shut, and none, shall open; |
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| 23 And I will fasten him as a peg in a sure place,–And he shall become a throne of glory, to the house of his father; |
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| 24 And they shall hang upon him, all the weight of his father's house–The offshoots, and the side-twigs–All the small vessels, Both the cups and all the jugs. |
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| 25 In that day,–Declareth Yahweh of hosts, Shall the peg, give way, that was fastened in a sure place,–Yea it shall be cut off and fall, And the burden that was upon it shall perish, For, Yahweh, hath spoken! |
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