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\c 22
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\v 1 Yahweh gave this message about Jerusalem, about the valley where Yahweh showed me this vision.
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\q1 Why is everyone foolishly running up to their flat rooftops?
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\q1
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\v 2 Everyone in the city seems to be shouting.
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\q2 There are a lot of corpses in the city,
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\q1 but they were not killed by their enemies' swords.
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\q2 They did not die in battles;
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\q2 instead, they died from diseases and hunger.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 3 All the leaders of the city fled.
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\q2 But then they were captured because they did not have bows and arrows to defend themselves.
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\q1 Your soldiers tried to flee while the enemy army was still far away,
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\q2 but they also were captured.
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\q1
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\v 4 That is why I said, "Allow me to cry alone;
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\q2 do not try to comfort me about my people being slaughtered."
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 5 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, has chosen a time when there will be a great uproar, soldiers marching, and people being terrified
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\q2 in the valley where I received this vision.
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\q1 It will be a time when our city walls will be battered down
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\q2 and the people's cries for help will be heard in the mountains.
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\q1
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\v 6 The armies from Elam and Kir in Media will attack,
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\q2 driving chariots and carrying shields.
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\q1
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\v 7 Our beautiful valleys will be filled with our enemies' chariots,
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\q2 and the men who drive the chariots will stand outside our city gates.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 8 God will cause the walls that protect the cities in Judah to fall down.
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\q2 You people of Jerusalem will run to get the weapons that are stored in the building called "the Hall of the Forest."
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\q1
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\v 9 You will see that there are many breaks in the walls of Jerusalem.
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\q2 You will store water in the lower pool in the city.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 10 You will inspect the houses in Jerusalem,
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\q2 and some of them you will tear down to use the stones to repair the city wall.
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\q1
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\v 11 Between the walls of the city you will build a reservoir to store water from the old pool.
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\q1 But you will never request help from the one who made the city;
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\q2 you have never depended on Yahweh, who planned this city long ago.
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\s5
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\q1
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\v 12 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, told you to weep and mourn;
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\q2 he told you to shave your heads and to wear rough sackcloth
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\q1 to show that you were sorry for the sins that you had committed.
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\q1
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\v 13 But instead of doing that, you were happy and celebrated;
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\q1 you slaughtered cattle and sheep
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\q2 in order to cook their meat and eat it and drink wine.
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\q1 You said, "Let us eat and drink all that we want to,
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\q2 because it is possible that we will die tomorrow!"
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\p
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\v 14 So Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, revealed this to me: "I will never forgive my people for sinning like this!"
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\p
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\v 15 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, said this to me: "Go to Shebna, the official who supervises the workers in the palace, and give this message to him:
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\q1
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\v 16 'Who do you think you are?
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\q2 Who gave you the authority to build a beautiful tomb where you will be buried,
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\q2 chiseling it out of the rocky cliff high above this valley?'"
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\q1
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\v 17 You think that you are a great man, but Yahweh is about to hurl you away.
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\q2 It will be as though he had seized you,
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\q1
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\v 18 rolled you into a ball,
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\q2 and thrown you away in a large distant land.
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\q1 You will die and be buried there,
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\q2 and your beautiful chariots will stay there in the hands of your enemies.
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\q2 And because of what happens to you, your master, the king, will be very ashamed.
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\q1
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\v 19 Yahweh says, "I will force you to quit working in the palace;
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\q2 you will be forced out from your important position.
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\p
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\v 20 Then I will summon Hilkiah's son Eliakim, who has served me well, to replace you.
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\v 21 I will make him wear your robe and fasten your sash around him, and I will give to him the authority that you had. He will be like a father to the people of Jerusalem and all the other towns in Judah.
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\v 22 I will give to him authority over what happens in the palace where King David lived; when he decides something, no one will be able to oppose it; when he refuses to do something, no one will be able to force him to do it.
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\v 23 I will cause his family to be greatly respected, because I will put him firmly in his position as supervisor of the workers in the palace, like a nail that is firmly hammered into a wall.
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\v 24 Others will enable him to have much responsibility, with the result that all the members of his family, even the most insignificant ones, will be honored.
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\v 25 Yahweh, commander of the angel armies, also says, "Shebna is like a peg that is firmly fastened to the wall. But there will be a time when I will remove him from his position; he will lose his power, and everything that he promoted will fail." That will surely happen because Yahweh has said it.
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