15 Thus said my Lord, Jehovah of Hosts: Go and see that steward, Shebna,
overseer of the palace. 16 Say to him, What are you up to? Who do you think you are, that you have hewn yourself a tomb here, like those who hew their sepulchres up high, carving out graves for themselves in the rock?
17 Jehovah will hurl you away
as an athlete hurls a missile;
he will make you soar like a dart.
18 He will bind you tightly about
and send you spinning like a top
into an open country.
There shall you die, and your inglorious conveyance there shall be a disgrace to your master’s house.
19 I will thrust you out of office; you will be expelled from your post.
20 In that day I will commission my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
21 I will clothe him with your robe and bind your girdle on him; I will appoint him your jurisdiction. And he will be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the house of Judah.
22 I will invest him with the keys of the house of David: when he opens none shall shut, when he shuts none shall open.
23 I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place, and he will be a throne of glory to the house of his father.
24 Upon him shall be hung all the glory of his father’s house: his descendants and posterity, including all the lesser vessels, from ordinary bowls to the most common containers.
25 In that day, says Jehovah of Hosts, the nail that was fastened in a sure place shall be removed. It shall be dislodged and fall, and the burden hanging on it cut off. Jehovah has spoken it.