7. Your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
8. He took away the covering of Judah; and you looked in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
9. You saw the breaches of David’s city, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
10. You counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11. You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who purposed it long ago.
12. In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
13. and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat and drinking wine: “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die.”
14. Yahweh of Armies revealed himself in my ears, “Surely this iniquity will not be forgiven you until you die,” says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies.
15. Thus says the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
16. ‘What are you doing here? Who has you here, that you have dug out a tomb here?’ Cutting himself out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!”
17. Behold, Yahweh will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
18. He will surely wind you around and around, and throw you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and there the chariots of your glory will be, you shame of your lord’s house.