Isaiah 22:1

The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

In Context

2You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:8If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.

1 Samuel 3:1Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.

2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

Psalms 114:5What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

Psalms 147:19He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions.

Isaiah 13:1The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 22:1

We have now come nearer home, for this chapter is "the burden of the valley of vision," Jerusalem; other places had their burden for the sake of their being concerned in some way or other with Jerusalem, and were reckoned with either as spiteful enemies or deceitful friends to the people of God; but now let Jerusalem hear her own doom. This chapter concerns, I. The city of Jerusalem itself and the neighbourhood depending upon it. Here is, 1. A prophecy of the grievous distress they should shortly be brought into… Read the whole commentary →

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