Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Deuteronomy 22:8When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement to the roof round about: lest blood be shed in thy house, and thou be guilty, if any one slip, and fall down headlong.
1 Samuel 3:1Now the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Heli, and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no manifest vision.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her: What is the matter with thee? She answered: Alas, I am a widow woman: for my husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou didst flee: and thou, O Jordan, that thou wast turned back?
Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon, which Isaias the son of Amos 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 →