(_Appendix to the Tetralogy in_ CHAPS XXI., XXII. 14.)
15. Thus spake the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, Go, get thee to that
steward there, to Shebna the house-mayor. 16. What hast thou here,
and whom hast thou here, that thou art hewing thyself out a sepulchre
here, hewing out his sepulchre high up, digging himself a dwelling in
rocks? 17. Behold, Jehovah hurleth thee, hurling with a man's throw,
and graspeth thee grasping. 18. Coiling, He coileth thee a coil, a
ball into a land far and wide; there shalt thou die, and thither the
chariots of thy glory, thou shame of the house of thy lord! 19. And I
thrust thee from thy post, and from thy standing-place He pulleth
thee down.
20. And it will come to pass in that day, that I call to my servant
Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, 21. and invest him with thy coat, and I
throw thy sash firmly round him, and place thy government in his
hand; and he will become a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and
to the house of Judah. 22. And I place the key of David upon his
shoulder: and when he opens, no man shuts; and when he shuts, no man
opens. 23. And I fasten him as a plug in a fast place, and he becomes
the seat of honour to his father's house. 24. And the whole mass of
his father's house hangs upon him, the offshoots and the side-shoots,
every small vessel, from the vessel of the basins even to every
vessel of the pitchers. 25. In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, will
the peg that is fastened in a sure place be removed, and be cast
down, and fall; and the burden that it bore falls to the ground: for
Jehovah hath spoken.