10. You have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.
11. You also made a reservoir between the two wallsfor the water of the old pool.But you have not looked to its Maker,nor did you respect Him who fashioned it long ago.
12. In that day the Lord God of Hostscalled you to weeping and mourning,and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.
13. Yet, there is joy and gladness,slaying of oxen and killing of sheep,eating of meat and drinking wine:“Let us eat and drink,for tomorrow we may die.”
14. It was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of Hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord God of Hosts.
15. Thus says the Lord God of Hosts: Come, go to this treasurer,even to Shebna, who is over the royal household, and say:
16. What right do you have here? And whom do you have herethat you have dug out for yourself a tomb here,as he who hews out for himself a tomb on high,and who cuts a habitation for himself in a rock?
17. Indeed, the Lord is about to hurl you headlong, O man;He is about to seize you firmly.
18. He will surely violently turnand toss you like a ball into a large country;there you shall die,and there the chariots of your glory shall bethe shame of your lord’s house.
19. I will drive you from your officeand pull you down from your station.
20. In that day I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah.
21. And I will clothe him with your robe and tie him securely with your sash. And I will entrust him with your authority, and 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 shoulder. Then he shall open, and no one shall shut. And he shall shut, and no one shall open.
23. I will fasten him as a nail in a firm place, and he shall become a glorious throne to his father’s house.
24. They shall hang on him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the bowls to all the jars.