16 What are you doing here? Who authorized you to carve out a tomb for yourself here, carving your tomb on the height and cutting a crypt for yourself out of rock?(A) 17 Look, you strong man! The Lord is about to shake you violently. He will take hold of you, 18 wind you up into a ball, and sling you into a wide land.[a] There you will die, and there your glorious chariots will be—a disgrace to the house of your lord.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 22:18 Hb obscure

16 What are you doing here and who gave you permission
    to cut out a grave(A) for yourself(B) here,
hewing your grave on the height
    and chiseling your resting place in the rock?

17 “Beware, the Lord is about to take firm hold of you
    and hurl(C) you away, you mighty man.
18 He will roll you up tightly like a ball
    and throw(D) you into a large country.
There you will die
    and there the chariots(E) you were so proud of
    will become a disgrace to your master’s house.

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