1Carga del Valle de la Visión: Pero, ¿qué tienes ahora que subes con los tuyos a las azoteas?2¡Oh tú, llena de bullicio, ciudad turbulenta, urbe desenfrenada! Tus caídos no cayeron a cuchillo ni murieron en combate.3Todos tus caudillos huyeron a una, Y sin tiro de arco fueron apresados. Todos los tuyos fueron copados cuando se alejaban huyendo.4Por eso digo: Apartad la mirada de mí, Expresaré mi amargura con llanto. No os afanéis en consolarme por la destrucción de la hija de mi pueblo.5Porque un día de pánico, angustia y consternación tiene Adonay YHVH Sebaot en el Valle de la Visión, Día de socavar muros y de clamores hasta las montañas.6¡Elam toma la aljaba, Siria irrumpe con carros y Kir saca el escudo!7He ahí tus mejores valles llenos de carros, Y los jinetes apostados frente a la puerta.8Ha sido quitada la defensa de Judá, Y en semejante día, miráis las armas de la casa del Bosque,9Y véis que son muchas las brechas en la ciudad de David, Y recogéis las aguas del estanque de abajo,10Y hacéis recuento de las casas de Jerusalem, Y demoléis casas para reforzar el muro,11Y entre los dos muros hacéis un foso para las aguas del estanque viejo; Pero no consideráis al que hace que ocurra esto, Ni véis al que hace mucho tiempo lo produjo.12Aquel día Adonay YHVH Sebaot os convocó al llanto y al lamento, A raparse el cabello y a vestirse de saco.13Pero, he aquí gozo y alegría, matanza de bueyes, degüello de ovejas y hartazgo de carne y de vino, Y dijisteis: ¡Comamos y bebamos, porque mañana moriremos!14Por eso YHVH Sebaot reveló a mis oídos: Ciertamente este pecado no os será perdonado hasta que muráis, dice Adonay YHVH Sebaot.
Sebna y Eliaquim
15Así dice Adonay YHVH Sebaot: Anda, ve a Sebna, ese mayordomo de palacio16Que se labra en lo alto un sepulcro Y en la piedra se hace un mausoleo, y dile: ¿Qué tienes aquí, a quién tienes aquí, Que te labras aquí un sepulcro?17He aquí YHVH te aferrará con fuerza Y te arrojará con violencia,18Y te hará rodar como una bola sobre una tierra ancha. Allí morirás y allí pararán tus gloriosos carros, ¡Oh vergüenza de la casa de tu señor!19Te depondré de tu cargo, Te quitará de tu puesto.20Aquel día llamaré a mi siervo Eliaquim ben Hilcías,21Y lo vestiré con tu túnica y lo ceñiré con tu cinto, Y entregaré en su mano tu poder, Y será por padre a los habitantes de Jerusalem y a la casa de Judá.22Pondré la llave de la casa de David sobre su hombro: Cuando abra no habrá quien cierre, Y cuando cierre, no existirá quien abra.23Lo clavaré como estaca en lugar firme, Y será un trono de honra para la casa de su padre.24De él penderá toda la gloria de la casa de su padre, la prole y la posteridad, Y todos los utensilios pequeños, de los tazones hasta los cántaros.25Aquel día, dice YHVH Sebaot, la estaca clavada en lugar firme cederá, Y la carga que pendía de ella caerá y se romperá, Porque YHVH ha hablado.
1The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, (Is 13:1; Is 22:5; Jer 21:13; Jl 3:12; Jl 3:14)2you who are full of shoutings, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain with the sword or dead in battle. (Is 32:13; Lm 4:9)3All your leaders have fled together; without the bow they were captured. All of you who were found were captured, though they had fled far away. (Is 1:10)4Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.” (Jer 9:1; Miq 1:8)5For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains. (Is 2:12; Is 10:6; Is 18:2; Is 22:1; Is 37:3; Miq 7:4)6And Elam bore the quiver with chariots and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. (2 R 16:9; Is 11:11)7Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen took their stand at the gates.8He has taken away the covering of Judah. In that day you looked to the weapons of the House of the Forest, (1 R 10:17; Is 30:1)9and you saw that the breaches of the city of David were many. You collected the waters of the lower pool, (2 Cr 32:5; Neh 3:16; Is 22:5; Is 22:10)10and you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you did not look to him who did it, or see him who planned it long ago. (2 R 20:20; 2 R 25:4; 2 Cr 32:3; Is 5:12; Is 7:3; Is 22:9)12In that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth; (2 S 3:31; Is 3:24; Jl 2:17)13and behold, joy and gladness, killing oxen and slaughtering sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine. “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.” (Is 56:12; 1 Co 15:32)14The Lord of hosts has revealed himself in my ears: “Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,” says the Lord God of hosts. (1 S 3:14; Is 5:9; Is 22:13; Is 27:9)15Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him: (2 R 18:18; 2 R 18:26; 2 R 18:37; 2 R 19:2; Is 36:3; Is 36:11; Is 36:22; Is 37:2)16What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock? (2 Cr 16:14; Mt 27:60)17Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you (Dn 3:21)18and whirl you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a wide land. There you shall die, and there shall be your glorious chariots, you shame of your master’s house. (Is 36:9)19I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station. (Is 22:25)20In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, (2 R 18:18; 2 R 18:26; 2 R 18:37; 2 R 19:2; Is 36:3; Is 37:2)21and I will clothe him with your robe, and will bind your sash on him, and will commit your authority to his hand. And he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah. (Gn 45:8; Is 22:20)22And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. (Job 12:14; Is 9:6; Ap 3:7)23And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house. (Ec 12:11; Is 33:20; Is 54:2; Ap 3:21)24And they will hang on him the whole honor of his father’s house, the offspring and issue, every small vessel, from the cups to all the flagons.25In that day, declares the Lord of hosts, the peg that was fastened in a secure place will give way, and it will be cut down and fall, and the load that was on it will be cut off, for the Lord has spoken.” (Is 22:23)