Proclamation Against Arabia

13 nThe 5burden against Arabia.

In the forest in Arabia you will lodge,

O you traveling companies oof Dedanites.

14 O inhabitants of the land of Tema,

Bring water to him who is thirsty;

With their bread they met him who fled.

15 For they fled from the swords, from the drawn sword,

From the bent bow, and from the distress of war.

16 For thus the Lord has said to me: “Within a year, paccording to the year of a hired man, all the glory of qKedar will fail; 17 and the remainder of the number of archers, the mighty men of the people of Kedar, will be diminished; for the Lord God of Israel has spoken it.”

Proclamation Against Jerusalem

22 The 1burden against the Valley of Vision.

What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,

2 You who are full of noise,

A 2tumultuous city, aa joyous city?

Your slain men are not slain with the sword,

Nor dead in battle.

3 All your rulers have fled together;

They are captured by the archers.

All who are found in you are bound together;

They have fled from afar.

4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me,

bI will weep bitterly;

Do not labor to comfort me

Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

5 cFor it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity

dBy the Lord God of hosts

In the Valley of Vision—

Breaking down the walls

And of crying to the mountain.

6 eElam bore the quiver

With chariots of men and horsemen,

And fKir uncovered the shield.

7 It shall come to pass that your choicest valleys

Shall be full of chariots,

And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.

8 gHe removed the 3protection of Judah.

You looked in that day to the armor hof the House of the Forest;

9 iYou also saw the 4damage to the city of David,

That it was great;

And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

10 You numbered the houses of Jerusalem,

And the houses you broke down

To fortify the wall.

11 jYou also made a reservoir between the two walls

For the water of the old kpool.

But you did not look to its Maker,

Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago.

12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts

lCalled for weeping and for mourning,

mFor baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

13 But instead, joy and gladness,

Slaying oxen and killing sheep,

Eating meat and ndrinking wine:

o“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”

14 pThen it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,

“Surely for this iniquity there qwill be no atonement for you,

Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.

The Judgment on Shebna

15 Thus says the Lord God of hosts:

“Go, proceed to this steward,

To rShebna, who is over the house, and say:

16 ‘What have you here, and whom have you here,

That you have hewn a sepulcher here,

As he swho hews himself a sepulcher on high,

Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock?

17 Indeed, the Lord will throw you away violently,

O mighty man,

tAnd will surely seize you.

18 He will surely turn violently and toss you like a ball

Into a large country;

There you shall die, and there uyour glorious chariots

Shall be the shame of your master’s house.

19 So I will drive you out of your office,

And from your position 5he will pull you down.

20 ‘Then it shall be in that day,

That I will call My servant vEliakim the son of Hilkiah;

21 I will clothe him with your robe

And strengthen him with your belt;

I will commit your responsibility into his hand.

He shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem

And to the house of Judah.

22 The key of the house of David

I will lay on his wshoulder;

So he shall xopen, and no one shall shut;

And he shall shut, and no one shall open.

23 I will fasten him as ya peg in a secure place,

And he will become a glorious throne to his father’s house.

24 ‘They will hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the posterity, all vessels of small quantity, from the cups to all the pitchers. 25 In that day,’ says the Lord of hosts, ‘the peg that is fastened in the secure place will be removed and be cut down and fall, and the burden that was on it will be cut off; for the Lord has spoken.’ ”

Proclamation Against Tyre

23 The aburden 1against Tyre.

Wail, you ships of Tarshish!

For it is laid waste,

So that there is no house, no harbor;

From the land of 2Cyprus it is revealed to them.

2 Be still, you inhabitants of the coastland,

You merchants of Sidon,

3Whom those who cross the sea have filled.

3 And on great waters the grain of Shihor,

The harvest of 4the River, is her revenue;

And bshe is a marketplace for the nations.

4 Be ashamed, O Sidon;

For the sea has spoken,

The strength of the sea, saying,

“I do not labor, nor bring forth children;

Neither do I rear young men,

Nor bring up virgins.”

5 cWhen the report reaches Egypt,

They also will be in agony at the report of Tyre.

6 Cross over to Tarshish;

Wail, you inhabitants of the coastland!

7 Is this your djoyous city,

Whose antiquity is from ancient days,

Whose feet carried her far off to dwell?

8 Who has taken this counsel against Tyre, ethe crowning city,

Whose merchants are princes,

Whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

9 The Lord of hosts has fpurposed it,

To 5bring to dishonor the gpride of all glory,

To bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.

10 Overflow through your land like 6the River,

O daughter of Tarshish;

There is no more 7strength.

11 He stretched out His hand over the sea,

He shook the kingdoms;

The Lord has given a commandment hagainst Canaan

To destroy its strongholds.

12 And He said, “You will rejoice no more,

O you oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.

Arise, icross over to Cyprus;

There also you will have no rest.”

13 Behold, the land of the jChaldeans,

This people which was not;

Assyria founded it for kwild beasts of the desert.

They set up its towers,

They raised up its palaces,

And brought it to ruin.

14 lWail, you ships of Tarshish!

For your strength is laid waste.

15 Now it shall come to pass in that day that Tyre will be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years it will happen to Tyre as in the song of the harlot:

16 “Take a harp, go about the city,

You forgotten harlot;

Make sweet melody, sing many songs,

That you may be remembered.”

17 And it shall be, at the end of seventy years, that the Lord will deal with Tyre. She will return to her hire, and mcommit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth. 18 Her gain and her pay nwill be set apart for the Lord; it will not be treasured nor laid up, for her gain will be for those who dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for 8fine clothing.