Isaiah 22

1 Oracle of the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,
2 O city full of noise and chaos, O wanton town! Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor killed in battle.
3 All your leaders fled away together, fled afar off; All who were in you were captured together, captured without the use of a bow.
4 At this I say: Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly; Do not try to comfort me for the ruin of the daughter of my people.
5 It is a day of panic, rout and confusion, from the Lord, the GOD of hosts, in the Valley of Vision. Walls crash; they cry for help to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up the quivers, Aram mounts the horses, and Kir uncovers the shields.
7 Your choice valleys are filled with chariots, and horses are posted at the gates,
8 and shelter over Judah is removed. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest;
9 you saw that the breaches in the City of David were many; you collected the water of the lower pool.
10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem, tearing some down to strengthen the wall;
11 you made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to the city's Maker, nor did you consider him who built it long ago.
12 On that day the Lord, the GOD of hosts, called on you To weep and mourn, to shave your head and put on sackcloth.
13 But look! you feast and celebrate, you slaughter oxen and butcher sheep, You eat meat and drink wine: Eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!
14 This reaches the ears of the LORD of hosts--You shall not be pardoned this wickedness till you die, says the Lord, the GOD of hosts.
15 Thus says the Lord, the GOD of hosts: Up, go to that official, Shebna, master of the palace,
16 Who has hewn for himself a sepulcher on a height and carved his tomb in the rock: What are you doing here, and what people have you here, that here you have hewn for yourself a tomb?
17 The LORD shall hurl you down headlong, mortal man! He shall grip you firmly
18 And roll you up and toss you like a ball into an open land To perish there, you and the chariots you glory in, you disgrace to your master's house!
19 I will thrust you from your office and pull you down from your station.
20 On that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah;
21 I will clothe him with your robe, and gird him with your sash, and give over to him your authority. He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
22 I will place the key of the House of David on his shoulder; when he opens, no one shall shut, when he shuts, no one shall open.
23 I will fix him like a peg in a sure spot, to be a place of honor for his family;
24 On him shall hang all the glory of his family: descendants and offspring, all the little dishes, from bowls to jugs.
25 On that day, says the LORD of hosts, the peg fixed in a sure spot shall give way, break off and fall, and the weight that hung on it shall be done away with; for the LORD has spoken.

Isaiah 23

1 Oracle on Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for your port is destroyed; From the land of the Kittim the news reaches them.
2 Silence! you who dwell on the coast, you merchants of Sidon, Whose messengers crossed the sea
3 over the deep waters. The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue, and she the merchant among nations.
4 Shame, O Sidon, fortress on the sea, for the sea has spoken: I have not been in labor, nor given birth, nor raised young men, nor reared virgins.
5 When it is heard in Egypt they shall be in anguish at the news of Tyre.
6 Pass over to Tarshish, wailing, you who dwell on the coast!
7 Is this your wanton city, whose origin is from old, Whose feet have taken her to dwell in distant lands?
8 Who has planned such a thing against Tyre, the bestower of crowns, Whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the earth's honored men?
9 The LORD of hosts has planned it, to disgrace all pride of majesty, to degrade all the earth's honored men.
10 Cross to your own land, O ship of Tarshish; the harbor is no more.
11 His hand he stretches out over the sea, he shakes kingdoms; The LORD has ordered the destruction of Canaan's strongholds.
12 You shall exult no more, he says, you who are now oppressed, virgin daughter Sidon. Arise, pass over to the Kittim, even there you shall find no rest.
13 (This people is the land of the Chaldeans, not Assyria.) She whom the impious founded, setting up towers for her, Has had her castles destroyed, and has been turned into a ruin.
14 Lament, O ships of Tarshish, for your haven is destroyed.
15 On that day, Tyre shall be forgotten for seventy years. With the days of another king, at the end of seventy years, it shall be for Tyre as in the song about the harlot:
16 Take a harp, go about the city, O forgotten harlot; Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs, that they may remember you.
17 At the end of the seventy years the LORD shall visit Tyre. She shall return to her hire and deal with all the world's kingdoms on the face of the earth.
18 But her merchandise and her hire shall be sacred to the LORD. It shall not be stored up or laid away, but from her merchandise those who dwell before the LORD shall eat their fill and clothe themselves in choice attire.

Isaiah 24

1 Lo, the LORD empties the land and lays it waste; he turns it upside down, scattering its inhabitants:
2 Layman and priest alike, servant and master, The maid as her mistress, the buyer as the seller, The lender as the borrower, the creditor as the debtor.
3 The earth is utterly laid waste, utterly stripped, for the LORD has decreed this thing.
4 The earth mourns and fades, the world languishes and fades; both heaven and earth languish.
5 The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, who have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.
6 Therefore a curse devours the earth, and its inhabitants pay for their guilt; Therefore they who dwell on earth turn pale, and few men are left.
7 The wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted groan.
8 Stilled are the cheerful timbrels, ended the shouts of the jubilant, stilled is the cheerful harp.
9 They cannot sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who partake of it.
10 Broken down is the city of chaos, shut against entry, every house.
11 In the streets they cry out for lack of wine; all joy has disappeared and cheer has left the land.
12 In the city nothing remains but ruin; its gates are battered and desolate.
13 Thus it is within the land, and among the peoples, As with an olive tree after it is beaten, as with a gleaning when the vintage is done.
14 These lift up their voice in acclaim; from the sea they proclaim the majesty of the LORD:
15 For this, in the coastlands, give glory to the LORD! In the coastlands of the sea, to the name of the LORD, the God of Israel!
16 From the end of the earth we hear songs: Splendor to the Just One! But I said, I am wasted, wasted away. Woe is me! The traitors betray: with treachery have the traitors betrayed!
17 Terror, pit, and trap are upon you, inhabitant of the earth;
18 He who flees at the sound of terror will fall into the pit; He who climbs out of the pit will be caught in the trap. For the windows on high will be opened and the foundations of the earth will shake.
19 The earth will burst asunder, the earth will be shaken apart, the earth will be convulsed.
20 The earth will reel like a drunkard, and it will sway like a hut; Its rebellion will weigh it down, until it falls, never to rise again.
21 On that day the LORD will punish the host of the heavens in the heavens, and the kings of the earth on the earth.
22 They will be gathered together like prisoners into a pit; They will be shut up in a dungeon, and after many days they will be punished.
23 Then the moon will blush and the sun grow pale, For the LORD of hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, glorious in the sight of his elders.

Isaiah 25

1 O LORD, you are my God, I will extol you and praise your name; For you have fulfilled your wonderful plans of old, faithful and true.
2 For you have made the city a heap, the fortified city a ruin; The castle of the insolent is a city no more, nor ever to be rebuilt.
3 Therefore a strong people will honor you, fierce nations will fear you.
4 For you are a refuge to the poor, a refuge to the needy in distress; Shelter from the rain, shade from the heat. As with the cold rain,
5 as with the desert heat, even so you quell the uproar of the wanton.
6 On this mountain the LORD of hosts will provide for all peoples A feast of rich food and choice wines, juicy, rich food and pure, choice wines.
7 On this mountain he will destroy the veil that veils all peoples, The web that is woven over all nations;
8 he will destroy death forever. The Lord GOD will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach of his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the LORD has spoken.
9 On that day it will be said: Behold our God, to whom we looked to save us! This is the LORD for whom we looked; let us rejoice and be glad that he has saved us!
10 For the hand of the LORD will rest on this mountain, but Moab will be trodden down as a straw is trodden down in the mire.
11 He will stretch forth his hands in Moab as a swimmer extends his hands to swim; He will bring low their pride as his hands sweep over them.
12 The high-walled fortress he will raze, and strike it down level with the earth, with the very dust.