The burden concerning the  ¹valley of vision:
What then troubles you
That all have gone up to the housetops?

You who are full of noise, you tumultuous city,
You exultant town,
Your slain were not slain with the sword,
Nor are they dead because of battle.

All your rulers have fled together;
Apart from the bow they have been captured.
All of you who were found have been captured together,
Though they had fled far away.

Therefore I said, Look away from me!
Let me weep bitterly.
Do not hasten to comfort me
About the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For there is a day of turmoil and trampling down and confusion
With the Lord Jehovah of hosts
In the valley of vision, a breaking down of walls
And crying to the mountains.

And Elam took up the quiver,
With chariots of men and horsemen;
And Kir uncovered the shield.

Then your choicest valleys
Were full of chariots,
And the horsemen firmly fixed themselves at the gate;

And he removed the covering of Judah.
And you looked in that day
To the weapons of the Forest House,

While the breaches of the city of David
You saw to be many.
So you gathered the water of the lower pool;

And the houses of Jerusalem you counted,
And tore down the houses to fortify the wall.

Then you made a reservoir between the walls
For the water of the old pool.
But you did not look to its very Maker,
And He who formed it long ago you did not regard.

Therefore the Lord Jehovah of hosts
Called you in that day
To weeping and to mourning,
To head shaving and to wearing sackcloth.

But now there is gladness and joy,
The slaying of cattle and the slaughtering of sheep,
The eating of meat and the drinking of wine;
Eating and drinking, for tomorrow we die!

But in my ears the Lord Jehovah of hosts revealed this:
This iniquity shall by no means be covered for you until you die,
Says the Lord Jehovah of hosts.

Thus says the Lord Jehovah of hosts:
Get up, go to this steward,
To Shebna, who is over the king's house, saying,

What are you doing here, and whom do you have here
That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here,
As he who has hewn a tomb on the heights,
As he who has cut out a resting place for himself in the rock?

Jehovah soon throws you far away, O mighty one,
And He grasps you firmly;

He will wind you up tightly;
Like a ball He will toss you into a wide land.
There you will die; and there the chariots of your glory
Will become the disgrace of the house of your master.

And I will drive you from your position,
And from your standing He will pull you down.

And in that day
I will call to My servant  ¹Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

And I will clothe him with your tunic,
And I will strengthen him with your girding sash,
And I will put your dominion into his hand;
And he will become a  ¹father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And to the house of Judah.

And I will set the  ¹key of the house of David upon his shoulder —
When he opens, no one will shut;
When he shuts, no one will open.

And I will drive him as a  ¹peg into a sure place,
And he will become a  ²throne of glory for his father's house.

And they will hang upon him all the  ¹glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all the smallest vessels, from the  ²bowls to all the jars.

In that day, declares Jehovah of hosts, the  ¹peg driven into the sure place will be removed, even cut away, and it will fall; and the burden that was upon it will be cut down; for Jehovah has spoken.

The burden concerning Tyre:
Howl, O ships of Tarshish,
For  ¹it is destroyed — lacking house,
Lacking entrance. From as far away as the land of  ²Kittim
It is told to them.

Hush, you inhabitants of the coastland,
You, whom the merchants of Sidon,
Who cross the sea, have replenished.

And by way of many waters
The grain of Shihor, the harvest of the Nile, was her revenue;
And she was profit to the nations.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, for the sea has spoken,
The stronghold of the sea, saying,
I have not been in labor nor given birth;
Neither have I brought up young men,
Nor have I raised virgins.

When the report reaches Egypt,
They will writhe in pain at the report concerning Tyre.

Cross over to Tarshish;
Howl, you inhabitants of the coastland.

Is this your jubilant city,
Whose antiquity is from the days of antiquity,
Whose feet carried her off afar to sojourn?

Who has purposed this
Against Tyre, the giver of crowns,
Whose merchants were princes,
Whose traders were the honorable of the earth?

Jehovah of hosts has purposed it,
To defile the pride of all beauty,
To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

Overflow your land like a river, O daughter of Tarshish;
There is no more restraint.

He has stretched out His hand over the sea;
He has shaken kingdoms.
Jehovah has given commandment concerning Canaan
To destroy its strongholds.

And He has said, You shall not continue to exult any longer,
O crushed virgin daughter of Sidon.
Arise; cross over to Kittim —
There also you will have no rest.

See the land of the  ¹Chaldeans, this people! They were not — the Assyrians assigned it to desert animals; they raised their siege towers; they stripped their citadels; they brought it to ruin.

Howl, O ships of Tarshish,
For your stronghold is destroyed.

In that day Tyre will be forgotten for seventy years, like the days of one king. At the end of the seventy years Tyre will be like her in the harlot's song;

Take a harp;
Compass the city,
Forgotten harlot.
Play well;
Abound in song,
That you may be remembered.

And at the end of the seventy years Jehovah will visit Tyre. And she will return to the wages of her harlotry and will be a harlot to all the kingdoms of the earth on land's surface.

And her profit and the wages of her harlotry will be dedicated to Jehovah; it will not be stored up, nor will it be hoarded, for her profit will be for those who dwell before Jehovah, as their sufficient food and their choice clothing.

Jehovah now makes the earth desolate and lays it waste; He distorts its surface and scatters its inhabitants:

As it is with the people, so will it be with the priest;
As it is with the servant, so will it be with the master;
As it is with the maid, so will it be with the mistress;
As it is with the buyer, so will it be with the seller;
As it is with the lender, so will it be with the borrower;
As it is with the creditor, so will it be with him to whom he gives credit.

The earth will be utterly desolated
And utterly spoiled,
For Jehovah has spoken this word.

The earth dries up and fades away;
The world languishes and fades away;
The exalted of the people of the earth languish.

And the earth is polluted under the weight of its inhabitants;
For they have transgressed laws, they have violated statutes,
They have broken an eternal covenant.

Therefore a curse devours the earth
And the inhabitants of it are held guilty;
Therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned,
And few men are left.

The new wine mourns; the vine languishes;
All the merryhearted sigh.

The mirth of the tambourines ceases;
The noise of those who exult stops;
The mirth of the lyre ceases.

Men do not drink wine in song;
Liquor is bitter to those who drink it.

The city of chaos is broken down;
Every house is shut up that none may enter.

A cry for wine is in the streets;
All joy is darkened;
The mirth of the land is departed.

In the city desolation remains,
And the gate is crushed to ruins.

For thus will it be in the midst of the earth,
Among the peoples:
Like the shaking of an olive tree,
Like the gleanings when the grape harvest is completed.

They will lift up their voice; they will give a ringing shout;
Because of the majesty of Jehovah they will cry out from the west.

Therefore in the east glorify Jehovah,
Even the name of Jehovah the God of Israel in the coastlands of the sea.

From the ends of the earth we hear songs:
 ¹Glory to the righteous One!
But I say, Leanness to me! Leanness to me! Woe to me!
The unfaithful deal unfaithfully!
Indeed the unfaithful deal most unfaithfully!

Dread, pit, and snare
Are upon you, O inhabitant of the earth.

And he who flees from the sound of dread
Will fall into the pit,
And he who comes up out of the pit
Will be taken in the snare;
For the windows from on high are open,
And the foundations of the earth shake.

The earth is broken asunder;
The earth is split through and through;
The earth is shaken violently.

The earth staggers back and forth like a drunkard
And sways about like a field hut.
And its transgression weighs heavily upon it;
It will fall and will not rise again.

And in that day Jehovah will punish
On high the  ¹host on high,
And the kings of the earth on the earth.

And they will be gathered together,
Like prisoners gathered in a dungeon;
And will be shut up in prison,
And after many days they will be punished.

Then the moon will be abashed, and the sun will be ashamed;
For Jehovah of hosts will reign
In Mount Zion and in Jerusalem,
And His glory will be before His elders.