Isaiah 22:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 21:13 : 13 See, I am against you, you who are living on the rock of the valley, says the Lord; you who say, Who will come down against us? or who will get into our houses?
  • Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people, from this time and for ever.
  • Joel 3:12 : 12 See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;
  • Joel 3:14 : 14 Give this out among the nations; make ready for war: get the strong men awake; let all the men of war come near, let them come up.
  • Isa 15:3 : 3 In their streets they are covering themselves with haircloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their public places, there is crying and bitter weeping.
  • Jer 48:38 : 38 On all the house-tops of Moab and in its streets there is weeping everywhere; for Moab has been broken like a vessel in which there is no pleasure, says the Lord.
  • Mic 3:6 : 6 For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
  • Rom 9:4-5 : 4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God: 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Prov 29:18 : 18 Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.
  • Isa 13:1 : 1 The word of the Lord about Babylon which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw.
  • Gen 21:17 : 17 And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.
  • Deut 22:8 : 8 If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.
  • Judg 18:23 : 23 Crying out to them. And the Danites, turning round, said to Micah, What is your trouble, that you have taken up arms?
  • 1 Sam 3:1 : 1 Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.
  • 1 Sam 11:5 : 5 Now Saul came from the field, driving the oxen before him; and he said, Why are the people weeping? And they gave him word of what the men of Jabesh had said.
  • 2 Sam 14:5 : 5 And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.
  • 2 Kgs 6:28 : 28 And the king said to her, What is troubling you? And she said in answer, This woman said to me, Give your son to be our food today, and we will have my son tomorrow.
  • Ps 114:5 : 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

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