Isaiah 22:1

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

מַשָּׂ֖א גֵּ֣יא חִזָּי֑וֹן מַה־לָּ֣ךְ אֵפ֔וֹא כִּֽי־עָלִ֥ית כֻּלָּ֖ךְ לַגַּגּֽוֹת׃

Transliteration

Maśśāʾ gēʾ ḥizzāyôn what-to-you ʾēpôʾ that-ʿālît all-of-you to-the-gaggôt

Grammar Details

*Maśśāʾ*: construct state, masculine singular - burden/oracle/utterance
*gēʾ*: construct state, masculine singular - valley of
*ḥizzāyôn*: masculine singular - vision
מַה־לָּ֣ךְ: interrogative + preposition with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - what to you
*ʾēpôʾ*: interrogative particle - then/now
כִּֽי־עָלִ֥ית: conjunction + Qal perfect, 2nd person feminine singular - that you have gone up
כֻּלָּ֖ךְ: noun with 2nd person feminine singular suffix - all of you
לַגַּגּֽוֹת: preposition + definite article + plural noun - to the roofs

Word Meanings

*Maśśāʾ*: burden/oracle/prophecy/utterance
*gēʾ*: valley/ravine
*ḥizzāyôn*: vision/revelation/prophecy
*ʾēpôʾ*: then/now/pray
*ʿālît*: ascended/gone up
*gaggôt*: roofs/housetops

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Referenced Verses

Jer 21:13 : 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?
Ps 125:2 : 2 As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the LORD is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
Joel 3:12 : 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 : 14 Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Isa 15:3 : 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.
Jer 48:38 : 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.
Mic 3:6 : 6 Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.
Rom 3:2 : 2 Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
Rom 9:4-5 : 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation: and as for his judgments, they have not known them. Praise ye the LORD.
Prov 29:18 : 18 Where there is no vision, the people perish: but he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
Isa 13:1 : 1 The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.
Gen 21:17 : 17 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 is.
Deut 22:8 : 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.
Judg 18:23 : 23 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?
1 Sam 3:1 : 1 And the child Samuel ministered unto the LORD before Eli. And the word of the LORD was precious in those days; there was no open vision.
1 Sam 11:5 : 5 And, behold, Saul came after the herd out of the field; and Saul said, What aileth the people that they weep? And they told him the tidings of the men of Jabesh.
2 Sam 14:5 : 5 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.
2 Kgs 6:28 : 28 And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, This woman said unto me, Give thy son, that we may eat him to day, and we will eat my son to morrow.
Ps 114:5 : 5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?

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