Isaiah 22:15–25 (ESV)

The Peril of Pride: Shebna (15–19)

15: Thus says the Lord God of hosts, “Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the household, and say to him:

16: What 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?

17: Behold, the Lord will hurl you away violently, O you strong man. He will seize firm hold on you

18: and 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.

19: I will thrust you from your office, and you will be pulled down from your station.

The Rewards of Honor: Eliakim (20–25)

20: In that day I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,

21: and 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.

22: And 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.

23: And I will fasten him like a peg in a secure place, and he will become a throne of honor to his father’s house.

24: And 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.

25: In 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.”