7. Your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8. And He shall remove the protection of Judah.You shall depend in that dayon the weapons of the house of the forest;
9. you have seen also that the breachesof the City of David are many;and you gathered together the watersof the lower pool.
10. You have numbered the houses of Jerusalem,and the houses you have broken down to fortify the wall.
11. You also made a reservoir between the two wallsfor the water of the old pool.But you have not looked to its Maker,nor did you respect Him who fashioned it long ago.
12. In that day the Lord God of Hostscalled you to weeping and mourning,and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.
13. Yet, there is joy and gladness,slaying of oxen and killing of sheep,eating of meat and drinking wine:“Let us eat and drink,for tomorrow we may die.”
14. It was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of Hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you until you die, says the Lord God of Hosts.
15. Thus says the Lord God of Hosts: Come, go to this treasurer,even to Shebna, who is over the royal household, and say:
16. What right do you have here? And whom do you have herethat you have dug out for yourself a tomb here,as he who hews out for himself a tomb on high,and who cuts a habitation for himself in a rock?
17. Indeed, the Lord is about to hurl you headlong, O man;He is about to seize you firmly.
18. He will surely violently turnand toss you like a ball into a large country;there you shall die,and there the chariots of your glory shall bethe shame of your lord’s house.