11. you built a reservoir inside the city to hold the water flowing down from the old pool. But you paid no attention to God, who planned all this long ago and who caused it to happen.
12. The Sovereign Lord Almighty was calling you then to weep and mourn, to shave your heads and wear sackcloth.
13. Instead, you laughed and celebrated. You killed sheep and cattle to eat, and you drank wine. You said, “We might as well eat and drink! Tomorrow we'll be dead.”
14. The Sovereign Lord Almighty himself spoke to me and said, “This evil will never be forgiven them as long as they live. I, the Sovereign Lord Almighty, have spoken.”
15. The Sovereign Lord Almighty told me to go to Shebna, the manager of the royal household, and say to him,
16. “Who do you think you are? What right have you to carve a tomb for yourself out of the rocky hillside?
17. You may be important, but the Lord will pick you up and throw you away.
18. He will pick you up like a ball and throw you into a much larger country. You will die there beside the chariots you were so proud of. You are a disgrace to your master's household.
19. The Lord will remove you from office and bring you down from your high position.”
20. The Lord said to Shebna, “When that happens, I will send for my servant Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21. I will put your official robe and belt on him and give him all the authority you have had. He will be like a father to the people of Jerusalem and Judah.
22. I will give him complete authority under the king, the descendant of David. He will have the keys of office; what he opens, no one will shut, and what he shuts, no one will open.
23. I will fasten him firmly in place like a peg, and he will be a source of honour to his whole family.
24. “But all his relatives and dependants will become a burden to him. They will hang on him like pots and bowls hanging from a peg!
25. When that happens, the peg that was firmly fastened will work loose and fall. And that will be the end of everything that was hanging on it.” The Lord has spoken.