10. Though you counted the houses of Jerusalem, you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
11. You even made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool—but you did not look to the Maker, or consider the One who planned it long before.
12. Now in that day, Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot will call for weeping and wailing, for baldness and putting on sackcloth.
13. But instead, there is joy and gladness, slaughtering cattle and killing sheep, meat and drinking wine! “Let’s eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die!”
14. But Adonai-Tzva’ot revealed in my ears: “Surely this sin will not be atoned for until you die,” says my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.
15. Thus says my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot: “Go, say to this steward, to Shebna, who is over the house:
16. ‘What are you doing here, and who are you to be here, that you cut out a grave for yourself, carving out a tomb on the height, chiseling a crypt for yourself in the rock?
17. Behold, strong man, Adonai is about to hurl you headlong, and seize you firmly.
18. He will roll you up tightly and toss you like a ball into a large country. There you will die, and your glorious chariots will be the shame of your Master’s house.
19. I will remove you from your post, and pull you down from your station.
20. “In that day I will summon my servant Eliakim, son of Hilkiah.
21. I will clothe him in your robe and fasten your sash on him. I will give your authority into his hands, so he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22. I will set the key of the house of David upon his shoulder—what he opens, no one can shut; what he shuts, and no one can open.
23. I will fasten him as a peg in a firm place, and he will be a throne of honor to his father’s house.
24. They will hang all the glory of his father’s house on him—offspring and posterity, all the small vessels, from bowls to all the jars.