Isaiah 22:1 A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,

English Standard Version
The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,

New American Standard Bible
The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?

King James Bible
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Holman Christian Standard Bible
An oracle against the Valley of Vision: What's the matter with you? Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?

International Standard Version
A message concerning the Valley of Vision. "What troubles you, now that you've all gone up to the rooftops,

American Standard Version
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Douay-Rheims Bible
THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Darby Bible Translation
The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Young's Literal Translation
The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?

Cross References

Matthew 10:27
What I tell you in darkness, that speak you in light: and what you hear in the ear, that preach you on the housetops.

Psalm 125:2
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now on even for ever.

Isaiah 15:3
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.

Isaiah 22:5
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

Jeremiah 21:13
Behold, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, said the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?

Jeremiah 48:38
There shall be lamentation generally on all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, said the LORD.

Joel 3:12
Let the heathen be wakened, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat: for there will I sit to judge all the heathen round about.

Joel 3:14
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

22:1-7 Why is Jerusalem in such terror? Her slain men are not slain with the sword, but with famine; or, slain with fear, disheartened. Their rulers fled, but were overtaken. The servants of God, who foresee and warn sinners of coming miseries, are affected by the prospect. But all the horrors of a city taken by storm, faintly shadow forth the terrors of the day of wrath.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 22

Isa 22:1-14. Prophecy as to an Attack on Jerusalem.

That by Sennacherib, in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah; Isa 22:8-11, the preparations for defense and securing of water exactly answer to those in 2Ch 32:4, 5, 30. "Shebna," too (Isa 22:15), was scribe at this time (Isa 36:3) [Maurer]. The language of Isa 22:12-14, as to the infidelity and consequent utter ruin of the Jews, seems rather to foreshadow the destruction by Nebuchadnezzar in Zedekiah's reign, and cannot be restricted to Hezekiah's time [Lowth].

1. of … valley of vision—rather, "respecting the valley of visions"; namely, Jerusalem, the seat of divine revelations and visions, "the nursery of prophets" [Jerome], (Isa 2:3; 29:1; Eze 23:4, Margin; Lu 13:33). It lay in a "valley" surrounded by hills higher than Zion and Moriah (Ps 125:2; Jer 21:13).

thee—the people of Jerusalem personified.

housetops—Panic-struck, they went up on the flat balustraded roofs to look forth and see whether the enemy was near, and partly to defend themselves from the roofs (Jud 9:51, &c.).