Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops? The key to this passage (vers. 1-14) — the most lurid and minatory of all Isaiah's prophecies — is the irreconcilable antagonism between the mood of the prophet and the state of public feeling around him. In a time of universal mirth and festivity he alone is overwhelmed with grief and refuses to be comforted. In the rejoicings of the populace he reads the evidence of their hopeless impenitence and insensibility, and he concludes his discourse by expressing the conviction that at last they have sinned beyond the possibility of pardon. The circumstances recall our Lord's lamentation over Jerusalem on the day of His triumphal entry. (J. Skinner, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?WEB: The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? |
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