16. what are you doing here and who gave you permissionto cut out a grave for yourself here,hewing your grave on the heightand chiselling your resting place in the rock?
17. ‘Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of youand hurl you away, you mighty man.
18. He will roll you up tightly like a balland throw you into a large country.There you will dieand there the chariots you were so proud ofwill become a disgrace to your master’s house.
19. I will depose you from your office,and you will be ousted from your position.
20. ‘In that day I will summon my servant, Eliakim son of Hilkiah.
21. I will clothe him with your robe and fasten your sash around him and hand your authority over to him. He will be a father to those who live in Jerusalem and to the people of Judah.
22. I will place on his shoulder the key to the house of David; what he opens no one can shut, and what he shuts no one can open.
23. I will drive him like a peg into a firm place; he will become a seat of honour for the house of his father.
24. All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots – all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
25. ‘In that day,’ declares the Lord Almighty, ‘the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.’ The Lord has spoken.