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¹ What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops, ² Nor dead in battle. ³ They have fled from afar. ⁴ Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.” ⁵ And of crying to the mountain. ⁶ And Kir uncovered the shield. ⁷ And the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. ⁸ You looked in that day to the armor of the House of the Forest; ⁹ And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool. ¹⁰ To fortify the wall. ¹¹ Nor did you have respect for Him who fashioned it long ago. ¹² For baldness and for girding with sackcloth. ¹³ “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!” ¹⁴ Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts. ¹⁵ To Shebna, who is over the house, and say: ¹⁶ Who carves a tomb for himself in a rock? ¹⁷ And will surely seize you. ¹⁸ Shall be the shame of your master’s house. ¹⁹ And from your position he will pull you down. ²⁰ That I will call My servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah; ²¹ And to the house of Judah. ²² And he shall shut, and no one shall open. ²³ 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.’ ”