Isaiah 22:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Bible Comments

The burden of the Valley of Vision, literally, "of the Valley of Visions," that is, Jerusalem, where God vouchsafed revelations and visions in larger number than elsewhere, for which reason Jerome called the city the nursery of prophets: What aileth thee now, the people of Jerusalem being addressed here collectively, as one person, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? the former insolence of the inhabitants having been changed to terror and panic.

Isaiah 22:1

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