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- Isaiah
- Chapter 22
- Verse 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.
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Gill's Exposition
For it is a day of trouble,.... To Hezekiah, and also Jerusalem, and all the inhabitants of the land:
and of treading down; the people of it by Sennacherib's army, like mire in the streets, when…
Barnes' Notes
For it is a day of trouble and of treading down - When our enemies trample on everything sacred and dear to us, and endanger all our best interests (see Psa 44:6; Luk 21:24). And of perplexity - In…
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…
The connexion here becomes very uncertain. It seems clear that Isa 22:22 (from its form) must refer to the future, while Isa 22:8-11 undoubtedly go back to what is past. The transition must apparently…
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