Isaiah 22:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

Denunciation of Self-Seeking Officials

¹⁵ Thus says the Lord God of hosts: Come, go to this steward, to Shebna, who is master of the household, and say to him: ¹⁶ What right do you have here? Who are your relatives here, that you have cut out a tomb here for yourself, cutting a tomb on the height, and carving a habitation for yourself in the rock? ¹⁷ The Lord is about to hurl you away violently, my man. He will seize firm hold of you,