Isaiah 22:17

David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot. All the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

There were hangings of white and blue material, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and marble pillars. The couches were of gold and silver, on a pavement of red, white, yellow, and black marble.

Say to the king and to the queen mother, “Humble yourselves. Sit down, for your crowns have come down, even the crown of your glory.

Don’t listen to Hezekiah.’ For the king of Assyria says, ‘Make your peace with me, and come out to me; and everyone of you eat from his own vine, and everyone from his own fig tree, and everyone drink water from his own cistern;

He carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, with the king’s mother, the king’s wives, his officers, and the chief men of the land. He carried them into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their god in their hands.

Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. His mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

Is it good to you that you should oppress, that you should despise the work of your hands, and smile on the counsel of the wicked?

If it isn’t so now, who will prove me a liar, and make my speech worth nothing?”

“For my people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the spring of living waters, and cut out cisterns for themselves: broken cisterns that can’t hold water.

Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuses to be healed? Will you indeed be to me as a deceitful brook, like waters that fail?

I will cast you out with your mother who bore you into another country, where you were not born; and there you will die.

So two or three cities staggered to one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet you haven’t returned to me,” says Yahweh.

These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever.

He didn’t lay his hand on the nobles of the children of Israel. They saw God, and ate and drank.

However he would not listen to her voice; but being stronger than she, he forced her, and lay with her.

The king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, “My son Absalom, Absalom, my son, my son!”

After a while, the brook dried up, because there was no rain in the land.

So they divided the land between them to pass throughout it. Ahab went one way by himself, and Obadiah went another way by himself.

Then King Ahasuerus said to Esther the queen, “Who is he, and where is he who dared presume in his heart to do so?”

Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.

They were distressed because they were confident. They came there, and were confounded.

The earth is given into the hand of the wicked. He covers the faces of its judges. If not he, then who is it?

He leads counselors away stripped. He makes judges fools.

God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.

“Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard. I cry for help, but there is no justice.

Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.

Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

He turns rivers into a desert, water springs into a thirsty ground,

Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.

Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

The king’s wrath is like the roaring of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

Therefore my people go into captivity for lack of knowledge. Their honorable men are famished, and their multitudes are parched with thirst.

Kings shall be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down to you with their faces to the earth, and lick the dust of your feet. Then you will know that I am Yahweh; and those who wait for me shall not be disappointed.”

Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

But Yahweh is with me as an awesome mighty one. Therefore my persecutors will stumble, and they won’t prevail. They will be utterly disappointed, because they have not dealt wisely, even with an everlasting dishonor which will never be forgotten.

Therefore behold, the days come,” says Yahweh, “that I will send to him those who pour off, and they will pour him off; and they will empty his vessels, and break their containers in pieces.

“We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”

“ ‘The sentence is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones; to the intent that the living may know that the Most High rules in the kingdom of men, and gives it to whomever he will, and sets up over it the lowest of men.’

Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, for the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.

The water in the container was spent, and she put the child under one of the shrubs.