Isaiah · Bible in Basic English
Isaiah 22 Bible in Basic English
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1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
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2 You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.
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3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
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4 For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
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5 For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...
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6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
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7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
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8 He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
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9 And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
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10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
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11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.
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12 And in that day the Lord, the Lord of armies, was looking for weeping, and cries of sorrow, cutting off of the hair, and putting on the clothing of grief:
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13 But in place of these there was joy and delight, oxen and sheep were being made ready for food, there was feasting and drinking: men said, Now is the time for food and wine, for tomorrow death comes.
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14 And the Lord of armies said to me secretly, Truly, this sin will not be taken from you till your death, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.
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15 The Lord, the Lord of armies, says, Go to this person in authority, this Shebna, who is over the house; who has made himself a resting-place on high, cutting out a place for himself in the rock, and say,
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16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
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17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,
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18 Twisting you round and round like a ball he will send you out into a wide country: there you will come to your end, and there will be the carriages of your pride, O shame of your lord's house!
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19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
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20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:
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21 And I will put your robe on him, and put your band about him, and I will give your authority into his hand: and he will be a father to the men of Jerusalem, and to the family of Judah.
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22 And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.
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23 And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.
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24 And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.
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25 In that day, says the Lord of armies, will the nail fixed in a safe place give way; and it will be cut down, and in its fall the weight hanging on it will be cut off, for the Lord has said it.
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Cross references (24)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Jeremiah 21:13; Psalm 125:2; Joel 3:14; Isaiah 15:3; Joel 3:12
- 2 Isaiah 32:13; Jeremiah 14:18; Lamentations 2:20; Isaiah 23:7; Jeremiah 52:6
- 3 Isaiah 3:1–8; 2 Kings 25:4–7; 2 Kings 25:18–21; Jeremiah 52:24–27; Jeremiah 39:4–7
- 4 Jeremiah 9:1; Matthew 2:18; Jeremiah 13:17; Micah 1:8; Psalm 77:2
- 5 Isaiah 10:6; Micah 7:4; Lamentations 1:5; Isaiah 37:3; Luke 23:30
- 6 2 Kings 16:9; Isaiah 21:2; Amos 9:7; Amos 1:5; Isaiah 15:1
- 7 Isaiah 8:7–8; Jeremiah 39:1–3; Isaiah 10:28–32; Isaiah 37:34
- 8 1 Kings 10:17; 1 Kings 7:2; 1 Kings 14:27–28; Song of Songs 4:4; Isaiah 36:1–3
- 9 2 Kings 20:20; Nehemiah 3:16; 2 Chronicles 32:1–6; 2 Chronicles 32:30
- 11 Jeremiah 33:2–3; Micah 7:7; Isaiah 17:7; 2 Kings 25:4; Isaiah 31:1
- 12 Micah 1:16; Joel 1:13; Joel 2:17; Amos 8:10; Ecclesiastes 3:4
- 13 Isaiah 56:12; 1 Corinthians 15:32; Luke 17:26–29; James 5:5; Isaiah 5:22
- 14 Ezekiel 24:13; Isaiah 5:9; 1 Samuel 3:14; Isaiah 26:21; Isaiah 13:11
- 15 Isaiah 36:3; 2 Kings 18:18; 2 Kings 19:2; Isaiah 37:2; 2 Kings 18:37
- 16 Matthew 27:60; 2 Samuel 18:18; 2 Chronicles 16:14; Job 3:14; Isaiah 52:5
- 17 Jeremiah 14:3; Job 9:24; Esther 7:8
- 18 Isaiah 17:13; Amos 7:17
- 19 Ezekiel 17:24; Psalm 75:6–7; Luke 1:52; Job 40:11–12
- 20 2 Kings 18:18; Isaiah 36:3; Isaiah 37:2; 2 Kings 18:37; Isaiah 36:22
- 21 Genesis 45:8; Isaiah 9:6–7; Genesis 41:42–43; 1 Samuel 18:4; Esther 8:15
- 22 Revelation 3:7; Matthew 16:18–19; Job 12:14; Matthew 18:18–19; Revelation 1:18
- 23 Job 36:7; Ezra 9:8; 1 Samuel 2:8; Zechariah 10:4; Ecclesiastes 12:11
- 24 John 20:21–23; 2 Timothy 2:20–21; Daniel 6:1–3; Matthew 28:18; John 5:22–27
- 25 Isaiah 46:11; Isaiah 22:23; Jeremiah 17:5–6; Micah 4:4; Esther 9:24–25
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
So with the Scribes; suppose them to speak out of their own heart; thou wilt hear, "Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we shall die." Suppose them to speak from Moses' seat; thou wilt hear, "Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shall not steal, Thou shall not bear false witness.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)