The Valley of Vision 1 Brenton The Word of the Valley of Sion. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not? 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 Brenton The city is filled with shouting men : thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died 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 Brenton All thy princes have fled, and thy captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in thee have fled far away. 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 Brenton Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labour not to comfort me for the breach 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 Brenton For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts: they wander in the valley of Sion; they wander from the least to the greatest on 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 Brenton And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle. BSB BSB: Elam takes up a quiver, with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovers the shield.
7 Brenton And it shall be that thy choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up thy gates. BSB BSB: Your choicest valleys are full of chariots, and horsemen are posted at the gates.
8 Brenton And they shall uncover the gates of Juda, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city. BSB BSB: He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.
9 Brenton And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David: and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city; 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 Brenton And ye procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool: but ye looked not to him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not him that created it. 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 Brenton And the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called in that day for weeping, and lamentation, and baldness, and for 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 Brenton but they engaged in joy and gladness, slaying calves, and killing sheep, so as to eat flesh, and drink wine; saying, Let us eat and drink; for to-morrow we 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 Brenton And these things are revealed in the ears of the Lord of hosts: for this sin shall not be forgiven you, until ye die. 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 Brenton and what hast thou to do here, that thou hast here hewn thyself a sepulchre, and madest thyself a sepulchre on high, and hast graven for thyself a dwelling in the 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 Brenton Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away thy robe and thy glorious crown, BSB BSB: Look, O mighty man! The LORD is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you,
18 Brenton and will cast thee into a great and unmeasured land, and there thou shalt die: and he will bring thy fair chariot to shame, and the house of thy prince to be trodden down. 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 Brenton And thou shalt be removed from thy stewardship, and from thy place. BSB BSB: I will remove you from office, and you will be ousted from your position.
20 Brenton And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Chelcias: BSB BSB: On that day I will summon My servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21 Brenton and I will put on him thy robe, and I will grant him thy crown with power, and I will give thy stewardship into his hands: and he shall be as a father to them that dwell in Jerusalem, and to them that dwell in Juda. 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 Brenton And I will give him the glory of David; and he shall rule, and there shall be none to speak against him: and I will give him the key of the house of David upon his shoulder; and he shall open, and there shall be none to shut; and he shall shut, and there shall be none to 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 Brenton And I will make him a ruler in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious throne of 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 Brenton And every one that is glorious in the house of his father shall trust in him, from the least to the greatest; and they shall depend upon him in that day. 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 Brenton Thus saith the Lord of hosts, The man that is fastened in the sure place shall be removed and be taken away, and shall fall; and the glory that is upon him shall be utterly destroyed: 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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