1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
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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?
As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
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.
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.
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)The title of this prophecy is very observable. It is the burden of the valley of vision , of Judah and Jerusalem; so all agree. Fitly enough is Jerusalem called a valley, for the mountains were round about it, and the land of Judah abounded with fruitful valleys; and by the judgments of God, though they had been as a towering mountain, they should be brought low, sunk and depressed, and become dar…
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