Isaiah 22:1
The doom of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the roofs?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When thou buildest a new house, thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof; that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any one were to fall from there.
1 Samuel 3:1And the lad Samuel was ministering unto the Lord before 'Eli. And the word of the Lord was scarce in those days: prophecy was not extended.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she said, Truly, I am a widow-woman; since my husband is dead.
Psalms 114:5What aileth thee, O sea, that thou fleest? thou, O Jordan, that thou art driven backward?
Psalms 147:19He declareth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.
Isaiah 13:1The doom of Babylon, which Isaiah Amoz' son foresaw.
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 →