Isaiah 22:17
Good News Translation
You may be important, but the LORD will pick you up and throw you away.

New Revised Standard Version
The LORD is about to hurl you away violently, my fellow. He will seize firm hold on you,

Contemporary English Version
You may be powerful, but the LORD is about to snatch you up and throw you away.

New American Bible
The LORD shall hurl you down headlong, mortal man! He shall grip you firmly,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.

will carry, etc.

is

21:18
a mighty captivity. Heb. the captivity of a man
cover

Esther 7:8 And when the king came back out of the garden set with trees, and entered into the place of the banquet, he found Aman was fallen upon the bed on which Esther lay, and he said: He will force the queen also in my presence, in my own house. The word was not yet gone out of the king's mouth, and immediately they covered his face.

Job 9:24 The earth is given into the hand of the wicked, he covereth the face of the judges thereof: and if it be not he, who is it then?

Jeremiah 14:3 The great ones sent their inferiors to the water: they came to draw, they found no water, they carried back their vessels empty: they were confounded and afflicted, and covered their heads.

Context
A Message for Shebna
16What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock. 17Behold the Lord will cause thee to be carried away, as a cock is carried away, and he will lift thee up as a garment.18He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.…
Cross References
Isaiah 22:16
What dost thou here, or as if thou wert somebody here? for thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, thou hast hewed out a monument carefully in a high place, a dwelling for thyself in a rock.

Isaiah 22:18
He will crown thee with a crown of tribulation, he will toss thee like a ball into a large and spacious country: there shalt thou die, and there shall the chariot of thy glory be, the shame of the house of thy Lord.

Isaiah 22:16
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