Isaiah 22:1
The burden of the Valley of Vision. What is [troubling] you now, that you have gone up, || All of you—to the roofs?
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Deuteronomy 22:8When you build a new house, then you have made a parapet for your roof, and you do not put blood on your house when one falls from it.
1 Samuel 3:1And the youth Samuel is serving YHWH before Eli, and the word of YHWH has been precious in those days—there is no vision breaking forth.
2 Samuel 14:5And the king says to her, “What do you [want]?” And she says, “I [am] truly a widow woman, and my husband dies,
Psalms 114:5What is [ailing] you, O sea, that you flee? O Jordan, you turn back!
Psalms 147:19Declaring His words to Jacob, || His statutes and His judgments to Israel.
Isaiah 13:1The burden of Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz has seen:
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 →