1 ¶ God’s sentence on the valley of vision. What is ailing you now, that all of you have gone up to the housetops?

2 You who are full of shouting, a noisy city, a jubilant city: your men who were killed were not killed with the sword, nor did they die in battle.

3 All your leaders have fled together, and were captured by the archers: all of you who were found were taken prisoner, though they had fled far away.

4 Therefore I said, Look away from me; and let me cry bitterly, do not try to comfort me, because my people will be destroyed.

5 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of confusion by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls, and a cry to the mountains for help.

6 Elam takes up her quivers, Aram harnesses her chariot horses, and Kir uncovers the shield.

7 And it will come to pass, that your choicest valleys will be full of chariots, and the horsemen will set themselves in array at the gate.

8 ¶ Then he will remove the defense of Judah, and in that day you will look for the weapons in the house of the forest.

9 You have seen that there were many breaches in the walls of the city of David: and you collected water from the lower pool.

10 And you have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and tear down houses to fortify the wall.

11 You also made a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you will not look to the one who is doing this, or turn to him who planned it long ago.

12 In that day the Lord GOD of hosts will call you to weep, and mourn, shaving off hair, and putting on sackcloth:

13 But instead you rejoice and celebrate, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we will die.

14 And the LORD of hosts revealed this in my ears, Surely this wickedness will not be removed from you till you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts.

15 ¶ The Lord GOD of hosts says this, Go, go to Shebna, who is the steward in charge of the palace, and say,

16 What are you doing here? and who are your relatives here, that you have carved out a tomb for yourself here, carving out a tomb on the height, and cutting a place for yourself in the rock?

17 Behold, the LORD will shake you violently, and will take firm hold of you.

18 He will roll you up like a ball and throw you into a large country: there you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be the shame of your lord’s house.

19 And I will remove you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your position.

20 And it will come to pass on that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

21 And I will dress him in your robe, and fasten it with your sash, and I will give him your authority: and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

22 And I will lay the key of the house of David on his shoulder; so he will open, and no one will shut; and he will shut, and no one will open.

23 And I will fasten him like a peg in a sure place; and he will be a throne of honor for his father’s house.

24 And they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the descendants and the offshoots, all the small vessels, from bowls, to every kind of jar.

25 In that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg that is fastened in a sure place will be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was on it will be cut off: for the LORD has said so.