Isaiah 22:1

THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to you, that now you⌃ are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?

LXX2012 (US English)

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: your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 22:8If you should build a new house, then shall you make a parapet to your house; so you shall not bring blood-guiltiness upon your house, if one should in any wise fall from it.

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

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

Psalms 114:5They have a mouth, but they + 114:5 Gr. will not. can’t speak; they have eyes, but they can’t see: 1

Isaiah 13:1THE VISION WHICH ESAIAS SON OF AMOS 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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