7. And this happened: the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate.
8. And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
9. and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
10. And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11. And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker, and you did not see the one who created it long ago.
12. And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day for weeping and mourning, and for baldness and girding with sackcloth.
13. But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen and the slaughtering of sheep, the eating of meat and the drinking of wine! “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14. And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts: “Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!” says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.
15. The Lord, Yahweh of hosts, says this: “Go! Go to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house:
16. ‘What business do you have here, and who do you have here, that you have cut a grave cutting here for yourself, carving his grave on the height, a dwelling place for him in the rock?