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Why is everyone running to the rooftops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/22.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/22.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/22.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/22.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />The burden against the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/22.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />The pronouncement concerning the valley of vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/22.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/22.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/22.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/22.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />The [mournful, inspired] oracle (a burden to be carried) concerning the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/22.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />A pronouncement concerning the Valley of Vision: What’s the matter with you? Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/22.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />An oracle against the Valley of Vision: What&#8217s the matter with you? Why have all of you gone up to the rooftops? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/22.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/22.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />This is a message about Vision Valley: Why are you celebrating on the flat roofs of your houses? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/22.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/22.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />This is the divine revelation about the valley of Vision. What's the matter with you? Why do all of you go up on the roofs?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/22.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />This is a message about the Valley of Vision. What is happening? Why are all the people of the city celebrating on the roofs of the houses? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/22.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />A message concerning the Valley of Vision. "What troubles you, now that you've all gone up to the rooftops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/22.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />This is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/22.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/22.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />The burden of the Valley of Vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/22.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou hast wholly gone up to the house-tops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/22.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the housetops? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/22.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />The burden of the Valley of Vision. What is [troubling] you now, that you have gone up, "" All of you—to the roofs?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/22.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/22.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What to thee now, that thou wentest up all of thee, to the roofs?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/22.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />THE burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/22.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision. What does it mean to you, then, that each of you have even climbed to the rooftops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/22.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Oracle on the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now, that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops, <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/22.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The oracle concerning the valley of vision. What do you mean that you have gone up, all of you, to the housetops,<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/22.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />THE prophecy concerning the valley of vision. What do you see here, that you are all gone up to the housetops?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/22.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />The burden of the valley of vision: “What is for you here that all of you went up to the rooftops?<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/22.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />The burden concerning the Valley of Vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/22.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />THE WORD OF THE VALLEY OF SION. What has happened to thee, that now ye are all gone up to the housetops which help you not?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/22-1.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=4354" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/22.htm">The Valley of Vision</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">1</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/4853.htm" title="4853: maś·śā (N-msc) -- From nasa'; a burden; specifically, tribute, or porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire.">This is the burden</a> <a href="/hebrew/1516.htm" title="1516: gê (N-csc) -- A valley. Or gay; probably from the same root as gevah; a gorge.">against the Valley</a> <a href="/hebrew/2384.htm" title="2384: ḥiz·zā·yō·wn (N-ms) -- Vision. From chazah; a revelation, expectation by dream.">of Vision:</a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: mah- (Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">What</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/645.htm" title="645: ’ê·p̄ō·w (Conj) -- Then. Or hephowe; from poh; strictly a demonstrative particle, here; but used of time, now or then.">ails you now,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kul·lāḵ (N-msc:: 2fs) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">you have all</a> <a href="/hebrew/5927.htm" title="5927: ‘ā·lîṯ (V-Qal-Perf-2fs) -- A primitive root; to ascend, intransitively or actively; used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative.">gone up</a> <a href="/hebrew/1406.htm" title="1406: lag·gag·gō·wṯ (Prep-l, Art:: N-mp) -- A roof, a top. Probably by reduplication from ga'ah; a roof; by analogy, the top of an altar.">to the rooftops,</a> </span><span class="reftext">2</span>O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-11.htm">Jeremiah 4:11-13</a></span><br />At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift; / a wind too strong for that comes from Me. Now I also pronounce judgments against them.” / Behold, he advances like the clouds, his chariots like the whirlwind. His horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us, for we are ruined!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/2-15.htm">Lamentations 2:15-16</a></span><br />All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?” / All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-39</a></span><br />O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. / For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/19-41.htm">Luke 19:41-44</a></span><br />As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/micah/1-9.htm">Micah 1:9-12</a></span><br />For her wound is incurable; it has reached even Judah; it has approached the gate of my people, as far as Jerusalem itself. / Do not tell it in Gath; do not weep at all. Roll in the dust in Beth-leaphrah. / Depart in shameful nakedness, O dwellers of Shaphir. The dwellers of Zaanan will not come out. Beth-ezel is in mourning; its support is taken from you. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/1-10.htm">Zephaniah 1:10-11</a></span><br />On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills. / Wail, O dwellers of the Hollow, for all your merchants will be silenced; all who weigh out silver will be cut off.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_kings/18-13.htm">2 Kings 18:13-16</a></span><br />In the fourteenth year of Hezekiah’s reign, Sennacherib king of Assyria attacked and captured all the fortified cities of Judah. / So Hezekiah king of Judah sent word to the king of Assyria at Lachish, saying, “I have done wrong; withdraw from me, and I will pay whatever you demand from me.” And the king of Assyria exacted from Hezekiah king of Judah three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold. / Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_chronicles/32-1.htm">2 Chronicles 32:1-5</a></span><br />After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself. / When Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come to make war against Jerusalem, / he consulted with his leaders and mighty men about stopping up the waters of the springs outside the city, and they helped him carry it out. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/6-6.htm">Jeremiah 6:6-8</a></span><br />For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst. / As a well gushes its water, so she pours out her evil. Violence and destruction resound in her; sickness and wounds are ever before Me. / Be forewarned, O Jerusalem, or I will turn away from you; I will make you a desolation, a land without inhabitant.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/21-20.htm">Ezekiel 21:20-22</a></span><br />Mark out one road for the sword to come against Rabbah of the Ammonites, and another against Judah into fortified Jerusalem. / For the king of Babylon stands at the fork in the road, at the junction of the two roads, to seek an omen: He shakes the arrows, he consults the idols, he examines the liver. / In his right hand appears the portent for Jerusalem, where he is to set up battering rams, to call for the slaughter, to lift a battle cry, to direct the battering rams against the gates, to build a ramp, and to erect a siege wall.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/amos/6-1.htm">Amos 6:1-7</a></span><br />Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes. / Cross over to Calneh and see; go from there to the great Hamath; then go down to Gath of the Philistines. Are you better than these kingdoms? Is their territory larger than yours? / You dismiss the day of calamity and bring near a reign of violence. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/5-8.htm">Hosea 5:8-9</a></span><br />Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin! / Ephraim will be laid waste on the day of rebuke. Among the tribes of Israel I proclaim what is certain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zechariah/12-2.htm">Zechariah 12:2-3</a></span><br />“Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of drunkenness to all the surrounding peoples. Judah will be besieged, as well as Jerusalem. / On that day, when all the nations of the earth gather against her, I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who would heave it away will be severely injured.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/24-15.htm">Matthew 24:15-16</a></span><br />So when you see standing in the holy place ‘the abomination of desolation,’ spoken of by the prophet Daniel (let the reader understand), / then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/13-14.htm">Mark 13:14-18</a></span><br />So when you see the abomination of desolation standing where it should not be (let the reader understand), then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains. / Let no one on the housetop go back inside to retrieve anything from his house. / And let no one in the field return for his cloak. ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?</p><p class="hdg">A.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/125-2.htm">Psalm 125:2</a></b></br> <i>As</i> the mountains <i>are</i> round about Jerusalem, so the LORD <i>is</i> round about his people from henceforth even for ever.</p><p class="hdg">of vision</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/3-1.htm">1 Samuel 3:1</a></b></br> And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; <i>there was</i> no open vision.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/147-19.htm">Psalm 147:19,20</a></b></br> He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/proverbs/29-18.htm">Proverbs 29:18</a></b></br> Where <i>there is</i> no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy <i>is</i> he.</p><p class="hdg">what</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/genesis/21-17.htm">Genesis 21:17</a></b></br> And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he <i>is</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/judges/18-23.htm">Judges 18:23</a></b></br> And they cried unto the children of Dan. And they turned their faces, and said unto Micah, What aileth thee, that thou comest with such a company?</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_samuel/11-5.htm">1 Samuel 11:5</a></b></br> And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What <i>aileth</i> the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.</p><p class="hdg">that thou.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/15-3.htm">Isaiah 15:3</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/deuteronomy/22-8.htm">Deuteronomy 22:8</a></b></br> 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.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/48-38.htm">Jeremiah 48:38</a></b></br> <i>There shall be</i> lamentation generally upon all the housetops of Moab, and in the streets thereof: for I have broken Moab like a vessel wherein <i>is</i> no pleasure, saith the LORD.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/114-5.htm">Aileth</a> <a href="/psalms/114-5.htm">Ails</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm">Burden</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-3.htm">Housetops</a> <a href="/psalms/129-6.htm">House-Tops</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-13.htm">Matter</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-7.htm">Mean</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm">Oracle</a> <a href="/isaiah/15-3.htm">Roofs</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-10.htm">Troubles</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-5.htm">Valley</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-2.htm">Vision</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-23.htm">Wholly</a> <a href="/isaiah/21-13.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/genesis/21-17.htm">Aileth</a> <a href="/genesis/21-17.htm">Ails</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-25.htm">Burden</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">Housetops</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-27.htm">House-Tops</a> <a href="/isaiah/43-26.htm">Matter</a> <a href="/isaiah/31-8.htm">Mean</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-1.htm">Oracle</a> <a href="/jeremiah/19-13.htm">Roofs</a> <a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm">Troubles</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm">Valley</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm">Vision</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm">Wholly</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-1.htm">Word</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 22</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-1.htm">The prophet laments the invasion of Jerusalem</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-8.htm">He reproves their human wisdom and worldly joy</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-15.htm">He prophesies Shebna's deprivation</a></span><br><span class="reftext">20. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/22-20.htm">And the substitution of Eliakim, prefiguring the kingdom of Christ.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/isaiah/22.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>The oracle concerning the Valley of Vision</b><br />The phrase "The oracle" refers to a divine message or prophecy, often carrying a sense of foreboding or judgment. In Hebrew, the word used is "מַשָּׂא" (massa), which can mean a burden or a pronouncement. This indicates that the message Isaiah is about to deliver is weighty and significant, carrying the authority of God. The "Valley of Vision" is a poetic name for Jerusalem, a city situated on a series of hills and valleys. Despite its elevated position, it is called a valley, perhaps to emphasize its spiritual lowliness or the paradox of its situation—being a place of divine revelation yet also of impending judgment. Historically, Jerusalem was the center of religious life for the Israelites, the place where God’s presence dwelt in the temple, making it a city of vision and prophecy.<p><b>What troubles you now</b><br />This phrase suggests an immediate concern or distress. The Hebrew word for "troubles" is "מַה־לָּכֶם" (mah-lakhem), which can imply a sense of agitation or disturbance. The prophet is addressing the people of Jerusalem, who are in a state of confusion or fear. This question is rhetorical, meant to provoke introspection among the inhabitants of the city. It implies that their current state is not what it should be, given their privileged position as the people of God. The historical context here is crucial, as Jerusalem was facing threats from foreign powers, and the people were likely anxious about their future.<p><b>that you have all gone up to the rooftops</b><br />In ancient Near Eastern culture, rooftops were flat and often used as places for social gatherings or for observing events in the city. The phrase "gone up to the rooftops" suggests a communal action, possibly to witness an approaching enemy or to engage in some form of collective lament or panic. The rooftops, being elevated, provided a vantage point, but they also symbolize a place of exposure and vulnerability. In the context of Isaiah’s prophecy, this action could indicate a futile attempt to escape or confront their troubles through human means rather than seeking God’s guidance and protection. The historical backdrop may involve the Assyrian threat, which loomed large over Jerusalem during Isaiah’s ministry, causing widespread fear and uncertainty among its inhabitants.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/22.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>XXII.</span><p>(1) <span class= "bld">The burden of the valley of vision.</span>--The "valley of vision" is Jerusalem, lying as it did (<a href="/jeremiah/21-13.htm" title="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 21:13</a>) in a valley, as compared with the hills round about it (<a href="/psalms/125-2.htm" title="As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from now on even for ever.">Psalm 125:2</a>). If we think of the prophet's dwelling as being in the lower city, in the valley of Tyrop?on, the epithet becomes still more appropriate. That valley would be to him in very deed a "valley of vision," where he saw things present and to come. Possibly the name became more characteristic from the impulse given to the prophetic dreams of all who claimed to be seers. The prophet looks out, and sees the people in a state of excitement, caused probably by the near approach of the Assyrian armies. They are "on the house-tops," the flat roofs of which were a customary place of concourse (<a href="/judges/16-27.htm" title="Now the house was full of men and women; and all the lords of the Philistines were there; and there were on the roof about three thousand men and women, that beheld while Samson made sport.">Judges 16:27</a>; <a href="/nehemiah/8-16.htm" title="So the people went forth, and brought them, and made themselves booths, every one on the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of the gate of Ephraim.">Nehemiah 8:16</a>), keeping their revels, as those do who meet the approach of danger with a reckless despair (<a href="/isaiah/22-13.htm" title="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.">Isaiah 22:13</a>). By some commentators (Birks, Kay,) the "valley of vision" has been identified with Samaria. . . . <div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/22.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verses 1-14.</span> - A PROPHECY AGAINST JERUSALEM. The prophet, present in Jerusalem, either actually, or at any rate in spirit, <span class="accented">sees</span> the inhabitants crowded together upon the housetops, in a state of boisterous merriment (vers. 1, 2). Outside the walls is a foreign army threatening the town (vers. 5-7). Preparations have been made for resistance, which are described (vers. 8-11); but there has been no turning to God. On the contrary, the danger has but made the bulk of the people reckless. Instead of humbling themselves and putting on sackcloth, and weeping, and appealing to God's mercy, they have determined to drown care in drink and sensual enjoyment (vers. 12, 13). Therefore the prophet is bidden to denounce woe upon them, and threaten that Jehovah will not forgive their recklessness until their death (ver. 14). There is nothing to mark very distinctly the nationality of the foreign army; but it is certainly represented as made up of contingents from many nations. Delitzsch holds that the Assyrian armies were never so made up, or, at any rate, that the nations here mentioned never served in its ranks ('Site of Paradise,' p. 237); but this is, perhaps, assuming that our knowledge on the subject is more complete and exact than is really the case. It is almost impossible to imagine any other army than the Assyrian besieging Jerusalem in Isaiah's time. Moreover, the particulars concerning the preparations made against the enemy (vers. 9-11) agree with those mentioned in <a href="/2_chronicles/32-3.htm">2 Chronicles 32:3-5</a> and 30 as made by Hezekiah against Sennacherib. And the second section of the chapter has certainly reference to this period. It seems, therefore, reasonable to regard the siege intended as that conducted by Sennacherib in his fourth year ( <span class="date">B.C. 701</span>), of which we have a brief account in his annals (G. Smith, 'Eponym Canon,' p. 135, 11. 15-18). <span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 1.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">The burden of the valley of vision</span>. "The valley of vision" is only mentioned here and in ver. 5. It must have been one of the deep depressions near Jerusalem troll which there is a good view of the town. The LXX. render, "the burden of the valley of <span class="accented">Zion</span>." <span class="accented"><span class="cmt_word"></span>What aileth thee now</span>? Jerusalem is addressed by the prophet, who assumes the <span class="accented">role</span> of a spectator, surprised at what he <span class="accented">sees</span>, and <span class="accented">asks</span> an explanation. <span class="cmt_word">That thou art wholly gone up to the housetops</span>. Partly, no doubt, they went to watch the enemy and his movements, as Rosenmüller says; but still more for feasting and revelry (<a href="/judges/16-27.htm">Judges 16:27</a>; <a href="/nehemiah/8-16.htm">Nehemiah 8:16</a>). The flat roofs of Oriental houses are often used as places of recreation and entertainment, especially in the evening (Shaw, 'Travels,' p. 211; Chardin, 'Voyages en Perse,' vol. 4. p. 116; Layard, 'Nineveh,' vol. 1. p. 177, etc.). <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/22-1.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">[This is] an oracle</span><br /><span class="heb">מַשָּׂ֖א</span> <span class="translit">(maś·śā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4853.htm">Strong's 4853: </a> </span><span class="str2">A burden, tribute, porterage, an utterance, chiefly a, doom, singing, mental, desire</span><br /><br /><span class="word">concerning the Valley</span><br /><span class="heb">גֵּ֣יא</span> <span class="translit">(gê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - common singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1516.htm">Strong's 1516: </a> </span><span class="str2">A valley</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of Vision:</span><br /><span class="heb">חִזָּי֑וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(ḥiz·zā·yō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2384.htm">Strong's 2384: </a> </span><span class="str2">A revelation, dream</span><br /><br /><span class="word">What</span><br /><span class="heb">מַה־</span> <span class="translit">(mah-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">What?, what!, indefinitely what</span><br /><br /><span class="word">ails you now,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֵפ֔וֹא</span> <span class="translit">(’ê·p̄ō·w)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_645.htm">Strong's 645: </a> </span><span class="str2">Here, now, then</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">you have all</span><br /><span class="heb">כֻּלָּ֖ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(kul·lāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">gone up</span><br /><span class="heb">עָלִ֥ית</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·lîṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5927.htm">Strong's 5927: </a> </span><span class="str2">To ascend, in, actively</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to the rooftops,</span><br /><span class="heb">לַגַּגּֽוֹת׃</span> <span class="translit">(lag·gag·gō·wṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1406.htm">Strong's 1406: </a> </span><span class="str2">A roof, the top of an altar</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/22-1.htm">Isaiah 22:1 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/22-1.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 22:1 The burden of the valley of vision (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/21-17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 21:17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 21:17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/22-2.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 22:2"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 22:2" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>