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 disgrace of your lord’s house.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 22:18 in context
Isaiah 22:15–21
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The Lord, GOD of Armies says, “Go, get yourself to this treasurer, even to Shebna, who is over the house, and say,
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‘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!”
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Behold, the LORD will overcome you and hurl you away violently. Yes, he will grasp you firmly.
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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 disgrace of your lord’s house.
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I will thrust you from your office. You will be pulled down from your station.
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It will happen in that day that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah,
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and I will clothe him with your robe, and strengthen him with your belt. I will commit your government into his hand; and he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
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