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.
1 关于"异象谷"的默示： 你们发生了什么事， 以致你们都上了房顶呢？
2 你这充满喧哗， 繁嚣、欢乐的城市啊！ 你们中间被杀的， 并不是被刀剑所杀， 也不是在战场上阵亡。
3 你们所有的官长都一起逃跑； 他们因没有弓箭而被俘掳， 你们中间所有被找到的都一起被俘掳， 虽然他们已逃到远方去。
4 因此我说： "要转开你们的眼， 不要望着我， 让我痛哭吧！ 不要因我人民的毁灭， 而急急安慰我。"
5 因为主万军之耶和华使"异象谷"有惊恐、践踏、混乱的日子： 城墙被拆毁， 哀声传到山上。
6 以拦拿着箭袋， 并有战车、步兵和骑兵； 吉珥亮出盾牌。
7 你佳美的山谷都布满战车， 又有骑兵在城门前列阵。
8 他挪去犹大的屏障了。到那日， 你就仰望"森林仓库"里的武器；
9 你们看见大卫的缺口很多， 就储存下池的水。
10 你们又数点耶路撒冷的房屋， 把房屋拆掉， 用来坚固城墙。
11 你们又在两道城墙之间造一个水池， 用来盛载旧池的水， 你们却不仰望作这事的主， 也不顾念远古以来计划这事的 神。
12 到那日， 主万军之耶和华叫人哭泣哀号， 剃光头发， 穿上麻布。
13 看哪！ 人还是欢喜快乐， 宰牛杀羊， 吃肉喝酒， 说： "我们吃喝吧！ 因为明天我们就要死了。"
14 万军之耶和华亲自启示我说： "直到你们死的时候， 这罪孽也不得赦免。"这是主万军之耶和华说的。
15 主万军之耶和华这样说： "你去见这掌管库房的， 就是总管舍伯那， 对他说：
16 你在这里有什么权利呢？你在这里有什么人， 竟在这里为你自己凿坟墓， 就是在高处为自己凿坟墓， 在磐石中为自己凿出安身之所呢？
17 看哪， 勇士啊！ 耶和华将要猛烈地拋掷你； 他必把你紧紧抓住，
18 把你卷了又卷， 卷成球状， 然后掷到宽阔之地； 你必死在那里， 你那华美的战车也在那里； 你成了你主人之家的耻辱。
19 我必革除你的官职， 从你的原位上把你拉下来。
20 到那日， 我必召希勒家的儿子， 就是我的仆人以利亚敬来，
21 我会把你的外袍给他穿， 把你的腰带给他系紧， 把你的权柄交在他的手中； 他要作耶路撒冷的居民和犹大家的父。
22 我必把大卫家的钥匙放在他肩头上； 他开了， 就没有人能关； 他关了， 就没有人能开。
23 我必坚立他， 像钉子钉在稳固的地方； 他必作父家荣耀的宝座。
24 他父家所有的荣耀， 他的儿女和子孙以及各样小器皿， 从碗子到瓶子， 都挂在他身上。
25 万军之耶和华说： ‘到那日， 那钉在稳固地方的钉子必垂下来， 被砍断坠落； 那挂在上面的担子必被砍掉， 因为这是耶和华说的。’"