1The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? 2O you who are full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, nor are they dead in battle. 3All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled far off. 4Therefore I said, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; do not labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 5For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains. 6And Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield. 7And it happened, that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate. 8And he took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest. 9And you saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool; 10and you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall; 11you made also a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who had done this, nor did you have respect to him who purposed it long ago. 12And in that day the Lord, Yehovah of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, 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 tomorrow we shall die. 14And Yehovah of hosts revealed himself in my ears, Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, says the Lord, Yehovah of hosts. 15Thus says the Lord, Yehovah of hosts, Go, go to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say, 16What are you doing here? and whom do you have here, that you have hewn out a tomb for yourself here? hewing himself out a tomb on high, carving a habitation for himself in the rock! 17Behold, Yehovah, like a strong man, will hurl you away violently; yes, he will wrap you up closely. 18He will surely wind you round and round, and toss you like a ball into a large country; there you shall die, and there shall be the chariots of your glory, you shame of your lord’s house. 19And I will thrust you from your office; and from your station you shall 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 your robe, and strengthen him with your sash, and I will commit your 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 I will 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 nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a throne of glory to his father’s house. 24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, every small vessel, from the cups even to all the flagons. 25In that day, says Yehovah of hosts, the nail that was fastened in a sure place shall give way; and it shall be hewn down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off; for Yehovah has spoken it.