Isaiah 22:1

The word of the Valley of Zion. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

2The city is filled with shouting men: thy slain are not slain with swords, nor are thy dead those who have died in battle.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:8If thou shouldest build a new house, then shalt thou make a parapet to thy house; so thou shalt not bring bloodguiltiness upon thy house, if one should in anywise fall from it.

1 Samuel 3:1And the child Samuel ministered to the Lord before Eli the priest: and the word of the Lord was precious in those days, there was no distinct vision.

2 Samuel 14:5And the king said to her, What is the matter with thee? And she said, I am indeed a widow woman, and my husband is dead.

Psalms 114:5The Lord is merciful and righteous; 1 Yea, our God has pity. 1

Isaiah 13:1The vision which Isaiah son of Amoz saw against Babylon.

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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