The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
A.M.cir.3292. B.C.cir.712
the valley. Jerusalem being situated in the midst of surrounding hills, and the seat of Divine revelation, is here termed 'the valley of vision'. This prophecy foretells the invasion of Jerusalem by the Assyrians under Sennacherib; and probably also, by the Chaldeans under Nebuchadnezzar.
Psalm 125:2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round …
of vision
1 Samuel 3:1 And the child Samuel ministered to the LORD before Eli. And the word …
Psalm 147:19,20 He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his judgments to Israel…
Proverbs 29:18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keeps the …
Micah 3:6 Therefore night shall be to you, that you shall not have a vision; …
Romans 3:2 Much every way: chiefly, because that to them were committed the oracles of God.
Romans 9:4,5 Who are Israelites; to whom pertains the adoption, and the glory, …
what
Genesis 21:17 And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to …
Judges 18:23 And they cried to the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, …
1 Samuel 11:5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul …
2 Samuel 14:5 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, I am indeed …
2 Kings 6:28 And the king said to her, What ails you? And she answered, This woman …
Psalm 114:5 What ailed you, O you sea, that you fled? you Jordan, that you were driven back?
that thou. The eastern houses are built with a court within, into which chiefly the windows open; those that open to the street being so obstructed with lattice work, that no one can see through them. Whenever, therefore, anything is to be seen or heard in the streets, any public spectacle, or any alarm, everyone immediately goes up to the house-top to satisfy his curiosity. Hence all the people running to the top of their houses, gives a lively image of a sudden general alarm.
Isaiah 15:3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the …
Deuteronomy 22:8 When you build a new house, then you shall make a battlement for …
Jeremiah 48:38 There shall be lamentation generally on all the housetops of Moab, …
Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
that art
Isaiah 22:12,13 And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to …
Isaiah 23:7 Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her …
Isaiah 32:13 On the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yes, on …
Amos 6:3-6 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence …
thy slain
Isaiah 37:33,36 Therefore thus said the LORD concerning the king of Assyria, He shall …
Jeremiah 14:18 If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! …
Jeremiah 28:3 Within two full years will I bring again into this place all the …
Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine …
Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the …
Lamentations 4:9,10 They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain …
All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far.
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
look
Ruth 1:20,21 And she said to them, Call me not Naomi, call me Mara: for the Almighty …
Jeremiah 4:19 My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart makes …
Jeremiah 9:1 Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears…
Jeremiah 13:17 But if you will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places …
Luke 1:2 Even as they delivered them to us, which from the beginning were …
weep bitterly. Heb. be bitter in weeping
Isaiah 33:7 Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without: the ambassadors of …
Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird you with sackcloth, and wallow yourself …
Micah 1:8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will …
Matthew 26:75 And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said to him, Before …
labour
Psalm 77:2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, …
Jeremiah 8:18 When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Jeremiah 31:15 Thus said the LORD; A voice was heard in Ramah, lamentation, and …
Matthew 2:18 In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great …
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.
a day
Isaiah 37:3 And they said to him, Thus said Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, …
2 Kings 19:3 And they said to him, Thus said Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, …
Jeremiah 30:7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even …
Amos 5:18-20 Woe to you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for …
treading
Isaiah 5:5 And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will …
Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people …
Isaiah 25:10 For in this mountain shall the hand of the LORD rest, and Moab shall …
perplexity
Esther 3:15 The posts went out, being hastened by the king's commandment, and …
Micah 7:4 The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than …
breaking
2 Kings 25:10 And all the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the …
Lamentations 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD …
Lamentations 2:2 The LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied…
Crying
Hosea 10:8 The high places also of Aven, the sin of Israel, shall be destroyed: …
Matthew 24:16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
Luke 23:30 Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to …
Revelation 6:16,17 And said to the mountains and rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from …
And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
thy choicest valleys. Heb. the choice of thy valleys
full
Isaiah 8:7,8 Now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the …
Isaiah 10:28-32 He is come to Aiath, he is passed to Migron; at Michmash he has laid …
Isaiah 37:34 By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and shall not …
Jeremiah 39:1-3 In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, …
at, or, toward
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool.
And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall.
Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
a ditch
Nehemiah 3:16 After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half …
ye have
Isaiah 8:17 And I will wait on the LORD, that hides his face from the house of …
Isaiah 17:7 At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have …
Isaiah 31:1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and …
Isaiah 37:26 Have you not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, …
2 Chronicles 6:6 But I have chosen Jerusalem, that my name might be there; and have …
2 Chronicles 16:7-9 And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said …
Jeremiah 33:2,3 Thus said the LORD the maker thereof, the LORD that formed it, to …
Micah 7:7 Therefore I will look to the LORD; I will wait for the God of my …
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
call
2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the …
Nehemiah 8:9-12 And Nehemiah, which is the Tirshatha, and Ezra the priest the scribe, …
Nehemiah 9:9 And did see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heard their …
Ecclesiastes 3:4,11 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance…
Joel 1:13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of …
Joel 2:17 Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch …
James 4:8-10 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, …
James 5:1 Go to now, you rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come on you.
to baldness
Isaiah 15:2 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: …
Ezra 9:3 And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and …
Job 1:20 Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell …
Amos 8:10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into …
Jonah 3:6 For word came to the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, …
Micah 1:16 Make you bald, and poll you for your delicate children; enlarge your …
And behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.
behold
Isaiah 5:12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in …
Isaiah 21:4,5 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure …
Isaiah 56:12 Come you, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves …
Amos 6:3-7 You that put far away the evil day, and cause the seat of violence …
Luke 17:26-29 And as it was in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days …
let
Isaiah 56:12 Come you, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves …
1 Corinthians 15:32 If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, …
James 5:5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; you have …
And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
it was
Isaiah 5:9 In my ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be …
1 Samuel 9:15 Now the LORD had told Samuel in his ear a day before Saul came, saying,
Amos 3:7 Surely the Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals his secret to …
surely
Numbers 15:25-31 And the priest shall make an atonement for all the congregation of …
1 Samuel 3:14 And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli…
Ezekiel 24:13 In your filthiness is lewdness: because I have purged you, and you …
John 8:21-24 Then said Jesus again to them, I go my way, and you shall seek me, …
Hebrews 10:26,27 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge …
Revelation 22:11,12 He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, …
Thus saith the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say,
treasurer
1 Chronicles 27:25 And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel: and …
Acts 8:27 And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch …
Shebna
Isaiah 36:3 Then came forth to him Eliakim, Hilkiah's son, which was over the …
Isaiah 37:2 And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, …
2 Kings 18:18,37 And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim …
2 Kings 19:2 And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the …
which
1 Kings 4:6 And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda …
2 Kings 10:5 And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the …
What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth an habitation for himself in a rock?
what hast
Isaiah 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, said the LORD, that my people is …
Micah 2:10 Arise you, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, …
hewed. There are some monuments still remaining in Persia, of great antiquity, says Bp. Lowth, called Naksi Rustam, which give a clear idea of Shebna's pompous design for his sepulchre. They consist of several sepulchres, each of them hewn in a high rock near the top. The front of the rock to the valley below is adorned with carved work in relieve, being the outside of the sepulchre. Some of these sepulchres are about thirty feet in the perpendicular from the valley, which is itself raised perhaps about half as much by the accumulation of the earth since they were made.
Isaiah 14:18 All the kings of the nations, even all of them, lie in glory, every …
2 Samuel 18:18 Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a …
2 Chronicles 16:14 And they buried him in his own sepulchers, which he had made for …
Job 3:14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places …
Matthew 27:60 And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: …
as he. or, O he
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house.
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.
And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:
And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
and the key. As the robe and the baldrie, mentioned in the preceding verse, were the ensigns of power and authority; so likewise was the key the mark of office, either sacred or civil. To comprehend how the key could be borne on the shoulder, it will be sufficient to observe, that the ancient keys were of considerable magnitude, and much bent.
Matthew 16:18,19 And I say also to you, That you are Peter, and on this rock I will …
Revelation 1:18 I am he that lives, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for ever …
so he
Job 12:14 Behold, he breaks down, and it cannot be built again: he shuts up …
Matthew 18:18,19 Truly I say to you, Whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven…
Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things …
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
I will
Ezra 9:8 And now for a little space grace has been showed from the LORD our …
Ecclesiastes 12:11 The words of the wise are as goads, and as nails fastened by the …
Zechariah 10:4 Out of him came forth the corner, out of him the nail, out of him …
a glorious
Genesis 45:9-13 Haste you, and go up to my father, and say to him, Thus said your …
1 Samuel 2:8 He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts up the beggar from …
Esther 4:14 For if you altogether hold your peace at this time, then shall there …
Esther 10:3 For Mordecai the Jew was next to king Ahasuerus, and great among …
Job 36:7 He withdraws not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are …
Luke 22:29,30 And I appoint to you a kingdom, as my Father has appointed to me…
Revelation 3:21 To him that overcomes will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even …
And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.
hang
Genesis 41:44,45 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no …
Genesis 47:11-25 And Joseph placed his father and his brothers, and gave them a possession …
Daniel 6:1-3 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, …
Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, All power is given to me …
John 5:22-27 For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment to the Son…
John 20:21-23 Then said Jesus to them again, Peace be to you: as my Father has …
vessels of small
Ezekiel 15:3 Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin …
Romans 9:22,23 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known…
2 Timothy 2:20,21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, …
vessels of flagons. or, instruments of viols
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the LORD hath spoken it.
the nail
Isaiah 22:15,16 Thus said the Lord GOD of hosts, Go, get you to this treasurer, even …
the burden
Esther 9:5-14,24,25 Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, …
Psalm 52:5 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, …
Psalm 146:3 Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help.
Jeremiah 17:5,6 Thus said the LORD; Cursed be the man that trusts in man, and makes …
for the
Isaiah 46:11 Calling a ravenous bird from the east, the man that executes my counsel …
Isaiah 48:15 I, even I, have spoken; yes, I have called him: I have brought him, …
Jeremiah 4:28 For this shall the earth mourn, and the heavens above be black; because …
Ezekiel 5:13,15,17 Thus shall my anger be accomplished, and I will cause my fury to …
Micah 4:4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; …
