For it is a day of trouble, and of treadingdown, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breakingdown the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
Ye madealso a ditchbetween the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not lookedunto the makerthereof, neither had respectunto him thatfashioned it long ago.
Whathastthouhere? and whomhastthouhere, thatthouhasthewedthee out a sepulchrehere, as he thatheweth him out a sepulchre on high, and thatgraveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
He willsurelyviolentlyturn and tosstheelike a ballinto a largecountry: thereshaltthou die, and there the chariots of thy gloryshall be the shame of thy lord’shouse.
And I willclothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I willcommit thy governmentinto his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
And theyshallhangupon him all the glory of his father’shouse, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of smallquantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nailthat is fastened in the sureplace be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burdenthat was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORDhathspoken it.