1 Godspraak oor die dal van die gesig. Wat is dit dan met jou dat jy, jou hele bevolking, op die dakke geklim het,
2 rumoerige, woelige stad, uitgelate vesting? Die wat in jou verslaan is, is nie deur die swaard verslaan en het nie in die oorlog gesterwe nie.
3 Al jou owerstes het almal saam gevlug, sonder boog is hulle gebind; almal wat in jou gegryp is, is almal saam gebind; hulle het ver weggevlug.
4 Daarom sê ek: Kyk weg van my af, dat ek bitterlik kan ween; dring nie aan om my te troos oor die verwoesting van die dogter van my volk nie;
5 want dit is 'n dag van rumoer en vertrapping en verwarring deur die Here, die HERE van die leërskare, in die dal van die gesig -- omgooi van mure en geskreeu na die gebergte toe!
6 En Elam het die pylkoker geneem, met waens, manskappe, ruiters; en Kir het die skild ontbloot.
7 Dan word jou beste dale met strydwaens gevul, en die ruiters staan gereed in die rigting van die poort;
8 en die beskutting van Juda word weggeneem. En in die dag kyk jy na die wapens in die Huis van die Bos,
9 en julle sien die skeure van die stad van Dawid, dat hulle baie is, en julle vang die waters van die Onderste Dam op.
10 En julle tel die huise van Jerusalem, en die huise breek julle af om die muur te versterk.
11 En julle maak 'n dam tussen die twee mure vir die water van die Ou Dam; maar julle kyk nie na Hom wat dit gedoen het nie, en Hom wat dit lankal beskik het, sien julle nie.
12 En in die dag roep die Here, die HERE van die leërskare, tot geween en tot rouklag en tot kaalskering en tot omgording van die roukleed;
13 maar kyk, daar is vreugde en vrolikheid, beeste word doodgemaak en skape geslag, vleis geëet en wyn gedrink, met die woorde: Laat ons eet en drink, want môre sterf ons.
14 Maar die HERE van die leërskare het Hom in my ore geopenbaar en gesê: Waarlik, hierdie ongeregtigheid word vir julle nie versoen totdat julle sterwe nie! sê die Here, die HERE van die leërskare.
15 So sê die Here, die HERE van die leërskare: Kom, gaan in by daardie bestuurder, by Sebna, wat oor die paleis aangestel is, en sê:
16 Wat het jy hier, en wie het jy hier, dat jy vir jou hier 'n graf uitgekap het soos een wat in die hoogte sy graf uitkap, wat in die rots vir hom 'n woning uithol?
17 Kyk, die HERE sal jou wegslinger, soos 'n man iets wegslinger, en jou vas inmekaar rol,
18 jou vas inmekaar draai soos 'n tol garing, jou soos 'n bal wegslinger na 'n land wat alkante toe wyd is; daar sal jy sterwe, en daar sal jou pronkwaens wees, o skandvlek van die huis van jou heer!
19 En Ek sal jou wegstoot uit jou pos, en uit jou plek sal Hy jou wegruk.
20 En in die dag sal Ek my kneg Âljakim, die seun van Hilk¡a, roep;
21 en Ek sal hom jou gewaad aantrek en hom gord met jou gordel, en jou mag sal Ek in sy hand lê, en hy sal vir die inwoners van Jerusalem en vir die huis van Juda 'n vader wees.
22 En Ek sal die sleutel van die huis van Dawid op sy skouer lê; en hy sal oopmaak, en niemand sal sluit nie; en hy sal sluit, en niemand sal oopmaak nie.
23 En Ek sal hom inslaan soos 'n pen in 'n vaste plek, en hy sal 'n eretroon wees vir die huis van sy vader.
24 En hulle sal aan hom ophang die hele swaarte van die huis van sy vader, die spruite en die wilde lote, al die klein huisraad, van komme af tot allerhande kruike toe.
25 In die dag, spreek die HERE van die leërskare, sal die pen padgee wat in 'n vaste plek ingeslaan is: dit word afgebreek en val, en die drag goed wat daaraan hang, raak tot niet, want die HERE het dit gespreek.
1 The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?
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.
3 All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
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.
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; ...
6 And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
7 And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
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.
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.
10 And you had the houses of Jerusalem numbered, pulling down the houses to make the wall stronger.
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.
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:
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.
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.
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,
16 Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?
17 See, O strong man, the Lord will send you violently away, gripping you with force,
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!
19 And I will have you forced out of your place of authority, and pulled down from your position.
20 And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.