English Bible Presentation Sharing - Isaiah Book, chapter 22, verse 31 in Nlv Version

Isaiah 22 : 1 (NLV)

The special word about the Valley of Visions: What is wrong, that you have all gone up to the house tops,

Isaiah 22 : 2 (NLV)

you who were full of noise, you loud town, you joy-filled city? Your dead were not killed with the sword. They did not die in battle.

Isaiah 22 : 3 (NLV)

All your rulers have run away together, and were taken without using the bow. All of you who were found were taken away together, even though you had run far away.

Isaiah 22 : 4 (NLV)

So I said, "Turn your eyes away from me. Let me cry with much sorrow. Do not try to comfort me about my people being destroyed."

Isaiah 22 : 5 (NLV)

For the Lord God of All has a day of fear, crushing down, and trouble in the Valley of Vision. There is a breaking down of walls and a crying out to the mountain.

Isaiah 22 : 6 (NLV)

Elam took up the arrows with the war-wagons, soldiers and horsemen. And Kir let the battle-covering be seen.

Isaiah 22 : 7 (NLV)

Your best valleys were full of war-wagons, and the horsemen took their places at the gate.

Isaiah 22 : 8 (NLV)

Then God took away the safe-covering of Judah. In that day you trusted in the objects you had to fight with that were stored in the house among the trees.

Isaiah 22 : 9 (NLV)

You saw that there were many broken places in the wall of the city of David. You stored water in the lower pool.

Isaiah 22 : 10 (NLV)

Then you numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and tore down houses to make the wall stronger.

Isaiah 22 : 11 (NLV)

You made a place to store water between the two walls for the waters of the old pool. But you did not trust in God Who made it. You did not think about Him Who planned it long ago.

Isaiah 22 : 12 (NLV)

So in that day the Lord God of All called you to cry in sorrow, to cut off the hair from your head, and to wear cloth made from hair.

Isaiah 22 : 13 (NLV)

But instead, there is joy and happiness, killing of cattle and sheep, eating of meat, and drinking of wine. You say, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die."

Isaiah 22 : 14 (NLV)

But the Lord of All has made Himself known to me. The Lord God of All says, "For sure you will not be forgiven for this sin until you die."

Isaiah 22 : 15 (NLV)

The Lord God of All says, "Come, go to this person in Shebna who is taking care of the king's house. Say to him,

Isaiah 22 : 16 (NLV)

'What right do you have here? Who told you that you could cut out a grave for yourself here? You cut out a grave on a high place! You cut a resting place for yourself in the rock!

Isaiah 22 : 17 (NLV)

See, the Lord will throw you away without pity, O you strong man. He will take a strong hold of you

Isaiah 22 : 18 (NLV)

and roll you up like a ball to be thrown into a wide land. There you will die, and there your great war-wagons will be. You are a shame to your king's house.'

Isaiah 22 : 19 (NLV)

I will throw you out of your place of power. I will take you down from your place.

Isaiah 22 : 20 (NLV)

In that day I will call My servant Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah.

Isaiah 22 : 21 (NLV)

I will clothe him with your coat, and tie your belt around him. I will give him the power you had. He will become a father to the people of Jerusalem and to the family of Judah.

Isaiah 22 : 22 (NLV)

Then I will put on his shoulder the rule of the family of David. What he opens, no one will shut. What he shuts, no one will open.

Isaiah 22 : 23 (NLV)

I will drive him like a nail in a hard place. He will become a throne of honor to his father's house.

Isaiah 22 : 24 (NLV)

So they will put on him all the honor of his father's house, and of his children, and every little dish, from the cups to all the jars.

Isaiah 22 : 25 (NLV)

"In that day," says the Lord of All, "the nail driven in a hard place will give way. It will break off and fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut off. For the Lord has spoken."