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Isaiah 22:1

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

KJV

Onus vallis Visionis. Quidnam quoque tibi est, quia ascendisti et tu omnis in tecta ?

Vulgate

Τὸ ῥῆμα τῆς φάραγγος Σειών. Τί ἐγένετό σοι ὅτι νῦν ἀνέβητε πάντες εἰς δώματα μάταια;

LXX

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

ASV

מַשָּׂ֖א גֵּ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מַה לָּ֣/ךְ אֵפ֔וֹא כִּֽי עָלִ֥ית כֻּלָּ֖/ךְ לַ/גַּגּֽוֹת

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

9 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵפ֔וֹא
'pv'
adverb · 15×
גֵ֣יא
gy'
noun · 62×
גָּֽג
gg
noun · 31×
חִזָּי֑וֹן
chzyvn
noun · 9×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
כִּֽי
ky
pronoun · 4439×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
מַשָּׂ֖א
msh'
noun · 65×

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • Deut 22:8 — When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.
  • Isa 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.
  • Isa 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.
  • Jer 21:13 — Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
  • Jer 21:13 — Behold, I am against thee, O inhabitant of the valley, and rock of the plain, saith the LORD; which say, Who shall come down against us? or who shall enter into our habitations?
  • Jer 48:38 — There shall be lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein is no pleasure, saith 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.
  • Ps 125:2 — As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.