A Prophecy About Jerusalem
1A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:
What troubles you now,
that you have all gone up on the roofs,
2you town so full of commotion,
you city of tumult and revelry?
Your slain were not killed by the sword,
nor did they die in battle.
3All your leaders have fled together;
they have been captured without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
let me weep bitterly.
Do not try to console me
over the destruction of my people.”
5The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day
of tumult and trampling and terror
in the Valley of Vision,
a day of battering down walls
and of crying out to the mountains.
6Elam takes up the quiver,
with her charioteers and horses;
Kir uncovers the shield.
7Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,
and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8The Lord stripped away the defenses of Judah,
and you looked in that day
to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9You saw that the walls of the City of David
were broken through in many places;
you stored up water
in the Lower Pool.
10You counted the buildings in Jerusalem
and tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
11You built a reservoir between the two walls
for the water of the Old Pool,
but you did not look to the One who made it,
or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.
12The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
called you on that day
to weep and to wail,
to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.
13But see, there is joy and revelry,
slaughtering of cattle and killing of sheep,
eating of meat and drinking of wine!
“Let us eat and drink,” you say,
“for tomorrow we die!”
14The Lord Almighty has revealed this in my hearing: “Till your dying day this sin will not be atoned for,” says the Lord, the Lord Almighty.
15This is what the Lord, the Lord Almighty, says:
“Go, say to this steward,
to Shebna the palace administrator:
16What are you doing here and who gave you permission
to cut out a grave for yourself here,
hewing your grave on the height
and chiseling your resting place in the rock?
17“Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
and hurl you away, you mighty man.
18He will roll you up tightly like a ball
and throw you into a large country.
There you will die
and there the chariots you were so proud of
will become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19I will depose you from your office,
and you will be ousted from your position.
20“In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah. 21I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah. 22I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open. 23I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat22:23 Or throne of honor for the house of his father. 24All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots—all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25“In that day,” declares the Lord Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The Lord has spoken.
Unabii Kuhusu Yerusalemu
122:1 Za 125:2; Yoe 3:2-14; Yos 2:8; Isa 13:1; Yer 48:38; 21:13Neno kuhusu Bonde la Maono:
Nini kinachokutaabisha sasa,
kwamba ninyi nyote mmepanda juu ya mapaa?
222:2 Isa 5:14; 32:13; Eze 22:5; Isa 21:5; 10:4; 2Fal 25:3Ewe mji uliojaa ghasia,
ewe mji wa makelele na sherehe!
Watu wenu waliokufa hawakuuawa kwa upanga,
wala hawakufa vitani.
322:3 Isa 13:14; 2Fal 25:6Viongozi wako wote wamekimbia pamoja,
wamekamatwa bila kutumia upinde.
Ninyi nyote mliokamatwa mlichukuliwa wafungwa pamoja,
mlikimbia wakati adui alipokuwa bado mbali.
422:4 Mao 1:16; Lk 19:41; Yer 9:1; Eze 21:6; Isa 15:3; Lk 19:41Kwa hiyo nilisema, “Geukia mbali nami,
niache nilie kwa uchungu.
Usijaribu kunifariji
juu ya maangamizi ya watu wangu.”
522:5 Amo 5:18-20; Es 3:15; Sef 1:15; Isa 2:12; Ay 40:12; 2Sam 22:43; Eze 8:17-18; 13:14; Mao 1:5Bwana, Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote, anayo siku
ya ghasia, ya kukanyaga, na ya kuogofya
katika Bonde la Maono,
siku ya kuangusha kuta
na ya kupiga kelele mpaka milimani.
622:6 Isa 21:2; 2Fal 16:9; Yer 51:56; 49:35; Za 46:9Elamu analichukua podo,
pamoja na waendesha magari ya vita na farasi.
Kiri anaifungua ngao.
722:7 Yos 15:18; 2Nya 32:1-2Mabonde yako yaliyo mazuri sana yamejaa magari ya vita,
nao wapanda farasi wamewekwa kwenye malango ya mji;
822:8 2Nya 32:5; 1Fal 7:2; Isa 2:12ulinzi wa Yuda umeondolewa.
Nawe ulitazama siku ile
silaha katika Jumba la Kifalme la Mwituni,
922:9 2Fal 18:17; 2Nya 32:4-5; Wim 4:4; 2Fal 20:20mkaona kuwa Mji wa Daudi
una matundu mengi katika ulinzi wake,
mkaweka akiba ya maji
kwenye Bwawa la Chini.
1022:10 Yer 33:4; 2Nya 32:15; 32:5; Yer 33:4Mlihesabu majengo katika Yerusalemu
nanyi mkabomoa nyumba ili kuimarisha ukuta.
1122:11 Yer 39:4; Neh 3:16; 2Fal 25:4; 19:25; 1Sam 12:24Mlijenga bwawa la maji katikati ya kuta mbili
kwa ajili ya maji ya Bwawa la Zamani,
lakini hamkumtazama Yule aliyelitengeneza,
au kuwa na heshima kwa Yule aliyeubuni tangu zamani za kale.
1222:12 Yoe 2:17; Law 13:40; Mik 1:16; Isa 3:24; Yoe 1:9-13Bwana, Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote,
aliwaita siku ile
ili kulia na kuomboleza,
kungʼoa nywele zenu na kuvaa nguo ya gunia.
1322:13 Mhu 8:15; Isa 5:12; 21:5; Lk 17:26-29; 1Kor 15:32; 1Sam 25:36; Isa 28:7-8Lakini tazama, kuna furaha na sherehe,
kuchinja ngʼombe na kuchinja kondoo,
kula nyama na kunywa mvinyo!
Mnasema, “Tuleni na kunywa,
kwa kuwa kesho tutakufa!”
1422:14 Eze 24:13; Isa 5:9; 1Sam 2:25; Isa 13:11; 30:13-14; 1Sam 3:14Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote amelifunua hili nikiwa ninasikia: Bwana, Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote, asema: “Mpaka siku ya kufa kwenu, dhambi hii haitafanyiwa upatanisho.”
1522:15 2Fal 6:30; 18:18; Mwa 41:40; Isa 36:3; 1Fal 4:6Hili ndilo Bwana, Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote, asemalo:
“Nenda ukamwambie huyu wakili Shebna,
ambaye ni msimamizi wa jumba la kifalme:
1622:16 Mt 27:60; Hes 32:42Unafanya nini hapa, na ni nani aliyekupa ruhusa
kujikatia kaburi lako mwenyewe,
ukichonga kaburi lako mahali palipo juu,
na kutoboa kwa patasi mahali pako pa kupumzikia katika mwamba?
1722:17 Yer 10:18; 13:18; 22:26“Jihadhari, Bwana yu karibu kukukamata thabiti,
na kukutupa mbali, ewe mtu mwenye nguvu.
1822:18 Ay 18:11; Isa 14:19; Mwa 41:43Atakuvingirisha uwe kama mpira
na kukutupa katika nchi kubwa.
Huko ndiko utakakofia,
na huko ndiko magari yako ya vita ya fahari yatabakia,
wewe unayeifedhehesha nyumba ya bwana wako!
1922:19 Za 52:5; Lk 16:3Nitakuondoa kutoka kazi yako,
nawe utaondoshwa kutoka nafasi yako.
2022:20 2Fal 18:18“Katika siku ile, nitamwita mtumishi wangu, Eliakimu mwana wa Hilkia. 2122:21 Ay 29:16Nitamvika joho lako, nami nitamfunga mshipi wako kiunoni mwake, na kumkabidhi mamlaka yako. Yeye atakuwa baba kwa wale wanaoishi Yerusalemu na kwa nyumba ya Yuda. 2222:22 1Nya 9:27; Mt 16:19; Ay 12:14; Ufu 3:7; Isa 7:2Nitaweka mabegani mwake ufunguo wa nyumba ya Daudi. Kile afunguacho hakuna awezaye kufunga, na kile afungacho hakuna awezaye kufungua. 2322:23 Eze 15:3; Zek 10:4; Ezr 9:8; Ay 6:25; 1Sam 2:7-8; Ay 36:7Nitamgongomea kama kigingi kilicho mahali palipo imara, naye atakuwa kiti cha enzi cha heshima kwa ajili ya nyumba ya baba yake. 24Utukufu wote wa jamaa yake utakuwa juu yake: Watoto wa jamaa hiyo na machipukizi yake, vyombo vyake vyote vidogo, tangu bakuli hadi magudulia yote.”
2522:25 Isa 46:11; Mik 4:4Bwana Mwenye Nguvu Zote asema, “Katika siku ile, kigingi kilichogongomewa mahali imara kitaachia njia. Kitakatwa, nacho kitaanguka na mzigo ulioningʼinia juu yake utaanguka chini.” Bwana amesema.
