WEBVTT 00:00.850 --> 00:01.780 Chapter 22. 00:02.680 --> 00:04.600 The Burden of the Valley of Vision. 00:05.720 --> 00:10.180 What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 00:10.620 --> 00:15.220 That thou art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city? 00:15.920 --> 00:19.720 Thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 00:20.540 --> 00:24.020 All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers. 00:24.500 --> 00:28.180 All that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 00:28.760 --> 00:34.540 Therefore, said I, look away from me, I will weep bitterly, labour not to 00:34.540 --> 00:37.820 comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 00:38.760 --> 00:43.560 For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the 00:43.560 --> 00:49.140 Lord God of hosts in the Valley of Vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to 00:49.140 --> 00:49.700 the mountains. 00:50.680 --> 00:55.980 And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the 00:55.980 --> 00:56.400 shield. 00:57.080 --> 01:00.840 And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of 01:00.840 --> 01:05.020 chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 01:05.240 --> 01:10.060 And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the 01:10.060 --> 01:11.540 armour of the house of the forest. 01:12.260 --> 01:16.240 Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many. 01:16.540 --> 01:20.920 And ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool, and ye have numbered the 01:20.920 --> 01:25.580 houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 01:26.420 --> 01:30.120 Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool, 01:30.620 --> 01:35.440 but ye have not looked unto the Maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that 01:35.440 --> 01:36.720 fashioned it long ago. 01:37.240 --> 01:42.220 And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, 01:42.720 --> 01:45.780 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth. 01:46.440 --> 01:51.120 And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, 01:51.300 --> 01:52.360 and drinking wine. 01:52.600 --> 01:56.060 Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. 01:56.780 --> 02:01.920 And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall 02:01.920 --> 02:06.520 not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord God of hosts. 02:07.440 --> 02:12.060 Thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, 02:12.360 --> 02:17.260 even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, What hast thou here? 02:17.900 --> 02:19.420 and whom hast thou here? 02:19.960 --> 02:24.400 That thou hast hewed thee out a sepulcher here, as he that heweth him out a 02:24.400 --> 02:28.720 sepulcher on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock. 02:29.500 --> 02:35.040 Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover 02:35.040 --> 02:35.340 thee. 02:35.840 --> 02:40.360 He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country. 02:41.140 --> 02:45.800 There shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame 02:45.800 --> 02:46.900 of thy Lord's house. 02:47.500 --> 02:52.180 And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee 02:52.180 --> 02:52.580 down. 02:53.260 --> 02:57.780 And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the 02:57.780 --> 03:02.420 son of Hilkiah, and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy 03:02.420 --> 03:05.560 girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand. 03:06.080 --> 03:09.980 And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house 03:09.980 --> 03:10.420 of Judah. 03:11.040 --> 03:15.620 And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder, so he shall open, 03:16.060 --> 03:17.100 and none shall shut. 03:17.620 --> 03:20.140 And he shall shut, and none shall open. 03:20.780 --> 03:25.980 And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, and he shall be for a glorious 03:25.980 --> 03:27.620 throne to his father's house. 03:28.560 --> 03:33.200 And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and 03:33.200 --> 03:39.040 the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the 03:39.040 --> 03:40.100 vessels of flagons. 03:40.860 --> 03:45.700 In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the 03:45.700 --> 03:51.740 sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall, and the burden that was upon it 03:51.740 --> 03:55.040 shall be cut off, for the Lord hath spoken it.