Isaiah 22:1

The massa (burden) of the Gey Chizayon (Valley of Vision): 1 What is it to thee now, 1 that thou art all gone up to the rooftops? 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

2Thou that art full of noise, 1 a tumultuous city, exultant city; 1 thy slain men are not slain with the cherev, 1 nor dead in milchamah. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:8When thou buildest a bais chadash, then thou shalt make a parapet for thy roof, that thou bring not dahm (blood guiltiness) upon thine bais, if any fall from thence.

1 Samuel 3:1And the na'ar Shmuel ministered unto Hashem before Eli. And the Devar Hashem was yakar (precious, dear, rare) in those days; there was no chazon nifratz [prophetic] vision open, spread out, common. + 3:1 i.e., prophetic vision was uncommon

2 Samuel 14:5And HaMelech said unto her, What troubleth thee? She answered, I am indeed an almanah, and mine ish is dead.

Psalms 114:5What ailed thee, O thou yam, that thou didst flee? 1 Thou Yarden, that thou wast driven back? 1

Psalms 147:19He declareth His Devar unto Ya'akov, 1 His chukkot and His mishpatim unto Yisroel. 1

Isaiah 13:1The massa (burden) of Bavel (Babylon), which Yeshayah Ben Amotz did see. 1

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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