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Isaiah 22

1 He prophecieth of the destruction of Jerusalém by Nebuchadnezzár. 15 A threatening against Shebna. 20 To whose office Eliakim is preferred.
1.The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now that thou art wholly gone up unto the house tops?
2.Thou that art full of noise, a city full of brute, a joyous city: thy slain men shall not be slain with sword, not die in battle.
3.All thy princes shall flee together from the bow: they shalbe bound: all that shalbe found in thee, shalbe bound together, which have fled from far.
4.Therefore said I, Turn away from me: I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
5.For it is a day of trouble, and of ruin, and of perlpexity by the Lord God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking down the city: and a crying unto the mountains.
6.¶ And Elám bare the quiver in a man’s charet with horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7.And thy chief valleys were full of charets, and the horsemen set them selves in array against the gate.
8.And he discovered the covering of Judáh: and thou didest look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
9.And ye have seen the breaches of the city of David: for they were many, and ye gathered the waters of the lower pool.
10.And ye numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
11.And have also made a ditch between the two walls, for the waters of the old pool, and have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that formed it of old.
12.And in that day did the Lord God of hostes call unto weeping and mourning, and to baldness and girding with sackcloth.
13.And behold, joy and gladness, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine, eating and drinking: for to morrow we shall dye.
14.And it was declared in the ears of the Lord of hostes. Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you, till ye die, saith the Lord God of hostes.
15.Thus saith the Lord God of hostes, Go, get thee to the treasurer, to Shebná, the steward of the house, and say,
16.What hast thou to do here? and whom hast thou here? that thou shuldest here hew thee out a sepulchre, as he that heweth out his sepulchre in an high place, or that graveth an habitation for him self in a rock?
17.Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a great captivity, and will surely cover thee.
18.He will surely roll and turn thee like a ball in a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the charets of thy glory shalbe the shame of thy lord’s house.
19.And I will drive thee from thy station, and out of thy dwelling will he destroy thee.
20.And in that day will I call my servant Eliakím the son of Hilkiáh,
21.And with thy garments will I cloth him, and with thy girdle will I strengthen him: thy power also will I commit into his hand, and he shalbe a father of the inhabitants of Jerusalém, and of the house of Judáh.
22.And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder: so he shall open and no man shall shut: and he shall shut, and no man shall open.
23.And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, and he shalbe for the throne of glory to his father’s house.
24.And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, even of the nephews and posterity all small vessels, from the vessels of the cups, even to all the instruments of musike.
25.In that day, saith the Lord of hostes, shall the nail, that is fastened in the sure place, depart and shall be broken, and fall, and the burden, that was upon it, shalbe cut off, for the Lord hath spoken it.

Notes

1-K.
ing 7.2, 10.17.
1-a.
Meaning, Judea, which was compassed about with mountains, and was called the valley of visions, because of the Prophets, which were always there, whom they named Seers.
1-b.
He speaks to Jerusalem, whose inhabitants were fled up to the housetops for fear of their enemies.
2-c.
Which was wont to be full of people and joy.
2-d.
But for hunger.
3-e.
And led, into captivity.
3-f.
Which have fled from other places to Jerusalem for succour.
4-g.
He shows what is the duty of the godly, when God’s plagues hang over the Church, and specially of the ministers, Jer. 9.1.
5-h.
That is, the shout of the enemies whom God had appointed to destroy the city.
6-i.
He puts them in mind how God delivered them once from Saneherib, who brought the Persians and Cyrenians with him, that they might by returning to God avoid the great plague which they should els suffer by Nebuchad-nezzár.
8-k.
The secret place where the armour was to wit, in the house of the forest,
9-l.
You fortified the ruinous places, which were neglected in time of peace meaning, the whole city and the city of David which was within the compass of the other.
10-m.
Either to pull down such as might hurt, or else to know what men they were able to make.
11-n.
To provide if need should be of water.
11-o.
To God that made Jerusalem that is, they trusted more in these worldly means than in God.
13-p.
Instead of repentance you were joyful and made great cheer, contemning the admonitions of the Prophets, saying, Let us eat and drink for our Prophets say, that we shall die tomorrow.
15-q.
Because the Ebrew word does signify one that does nourish and cherish, there are of the learned that think, that this wicked man did nourish secret friendship with the Assyrians and Egyptians, to betray the Church and to provide for himself against all dangers in the mean season he packt craftily and gate of the best offices into his hand under Hezekiah, ever aspiring to the highest.
16-r.
Meaning, that he was a stranger and came up of nothing.
16-s.
Where as he thought to make his name immortal by his famous sepulchre, he died most miserable among the Assyrians.
18-t.
Signifying that whatsoever dignity the wicked attain unto, at length it will turn to the shame of those Princes, by whom they were preferred.
20-u.
To be steward again, out of the which office he had been put by craft of Shebná.
22-x.
I will commit unto him the full charge and government of the King’s house.
23-y.
I will establish him and confirm him in his office, of this phrase read, Ezra 9.8.
24-z.
Meaning that both small and great that shall come of Eliakim, shall have praise and glory by this faithful officer.
25-a.
He means Shebna, who in man’s judgement should never have fallen.