The Valley of Vision 1 AKJV The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? BSB BSB: This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
2 AKJV You that are full of stirs, a tumultuous city, joyous city: your slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. BSB BSB: O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
3 AKJV All your rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in you are bound together, which have fled from far. BSB BSB: All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.
4 AKJV Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. BSB BSB: Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 AKJV For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. BSB BSB: For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision—of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.
6 AKJV And Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. BSB BSB: Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.
7 AKJV And it shall come to pass, that your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. BSB BSB: Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.
8 AKJV And he discovered the covering of Judah, and you did look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest. BSB BSB: He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.
9 AKJV You have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. BSB BSB: You saw that there were many breaches in the walls of the City of David. You collected water from the lower pool.
11 AKJV You made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you have not looked to the maker thereof, neither had respect to him that fashioned it long ago. BSB BSB: You built a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the ancient pool, but you did not look to the One who made it, or consider Him who planned it long ago.
12 AKJV And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: BSB BSB: On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.
13 AKJV And 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. BSB BSB: But look, there is joy and gladness, butchering of cattle and slaughtering of sheep, eating of meat and drinking of wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14 AKJV And it was revealed in my ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till you die, says the Lord GOD of hosts. BSB BSB: The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: “Until your dying day, this sin of yours will never be atoned for,” says the Lord GOD of Hosts.
A Message for Shebna 16 AKJV What have you here? and whom have you here, that you have hewed you out a sepulcher here, as he that hews him out a sepulcher on high, and that engraves an habitation for himself in a rock? BSB BSB: What are you doing here, and who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here—to chisel your tomb in the height and cut your resting place in the rock?
17 AKJV Behold, the LORD will carry you away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover you. BSB BSB: Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
18 AKJV He will surely violently turn and toss you like a ball into a large country: there shall you die, and there the chariots of your glory shall be the shame of your lord’s house. BSB BSB: roll you into a ball, and sling you into a wide land. There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will remain—a disgrace to the house of your master.
19 AKJV And I will drive you from your station, and from your state shall he pull you down. BSB BSB: I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.
20 AKJV And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah: BSB BSB: On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21 AKJV And I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your girdle, 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. BSB BSB: I will clothe him with your robe and tie your sash around him. I will put your authority in his hand, and he will be a father to the dwellers of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 AKJV And the key of the house of David will I lay on his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. BSB BSB: I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David. What he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
23 AKJV And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house. BSB BSB: I will drive him like a peg into a firm place, and he will be a throne of glory for the house of his father.
24 AKJV And they shall hang on 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. BSB BSB: So they will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house: the descendants and the offshoots—all the lesser vessels, from bowls to every kind of jar.
25 AKJV In that day, says the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was on it shall be cut off: for the LORD has spoken it. BSB BSB: In that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
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