16. What do you have here—and whom do you have here—that you have hewed out a tomb for yourself,you who cuts his grave on high and carves himself a home in the cliff?
17. The Lord is about to hurl you down, mighty man!He is surely going to cover you with darkness;
18. he will indeed unroll your head wrapping,rolling it like a ball into the open country.There you will die, with your glorious chariots,you disgrace to the house of your master!
19. I will thrust you from your monument;you will be pulled down from your platform.
20. On that day, I will call my servantEliakim, Hilkiah’s son.
21. I will give him your robe and wrap him in your sash,and I will hand over to him your authority.He will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalemand to the house of Judah.
22. I will place the key to David’s house on his shoulder;what he opens no one will close,and what he closes no one will open.
23. I will fasten him securely like a tent peg,and he will be a throne of honor for his ancestors’ house.
24. All the honor of his household will hang on him, the offspring and the offshoots, every little dish, every bowl, every jar.