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اِشعيا 22:5

5 زیرا خداوند یهوه‌ صبایوت‌ روز آشفتگی‌ و پایمالی‌ و پریشانی‌ای‌ در وادی‌ رؤیا دارد. دیوارها را منهدم‌ می‌سازند و صدای‌ استغاثه‌ تا به‌ كوهها می‌رسد.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Hinnom;   Isaiah;   Israel, Prophecies Concerning;   Minister, Christian;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Day;   Sennacherib;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Jerusalem;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Isaiah;   Shoa;   Vision;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Isaiah, Book of;   Prophecy, Prophets;   Vision;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Yale, Valley;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Cry, Crying;   Isaiah;   Kir;   Valley of Vision;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alliteration and Kindred Figures;   Eschatology;   Hezekiah;  

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

a day: Isaiah 37:3, 2 Kings 19:3, Jeremiah 30:7, Amos 5:18-20

treading: Isaiah 5:5, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 25:10

perplexity: Esther 3:15, Micah 7:4

breaking: 2 Kings 25:10, Lamentations 1:5, Lamentations 2:2

crying: Hosea 10:8, Matthew 24:16, Luke 23:30, Revelation 6:16, Revelation 6:17

Reciprocal: Isaiah 15:5 - destruction Isaiah 32:11 - be troubled Jeremiah 47:2 - then the Ezekiel 7:7 - the day Zephaniah 1:10 - the noise Zephaniah 1:14 - even Zephaniah 1:15 - is Luke 9:7 - he Luke 21:25 - with

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 their cities were taken by him:

and of perplexity by the Lord of hosts in the valley of vision; in Jerusalem, besieged, and threatened with desolation; which threw the king and his nobles, and all the inhabitants, into the utmost perplexity, confusion, and distress; and all this was not merely from men, nor was it by chance, but by the permission and appointment of God, to humble his people for their sins, and bring them to a sense and acknowledgment of them:

breaking down the walls: of the fenced cities, with their battering rams, at the time they besieged and took them, 2 Kings 18:13:

and of crying to the mountains: looking and running to them for help and succour, for shelter and protection; and crying so loud, by reason of their distress, as that it reached the distant mountains, and made them echo with it.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 Psalms 44:6; Luke 21:24).

And of perplexity - In which we know not what to do. We are embarrassed, and know not where to look for relief.

By the Lord God of hosts - That is, he is the efficient cause of all this. It has come upon us under his providence, and by his direction (see the note at Isaiah 10:5).

In the valley of vision - In Jerusalem (see the note at Isaiah 22:1).

Breaking down the walls - There has been much variety in the interpretation of this place. The Septuagint renders it, ‘In the valley of Zion they wander, from the least to the greatest; they wander upon the mountains.’ See a discussion of the various senses which the Hebrew phrase may admit, in Rosenmuller and Gesenius. Probably our common version has given the true sense, and the reference is to the fact that the walls of the city became thrown down, either in the siege or from some other cause. If this refers to the invasion of Sennacherib, though his army was destroyed, and he was unable to take the city, yet there is no improbability in the supposition that he made some breaches in the walls. Indeed this is implied in the account in 2 Chronicles 32:5.

And of crying to the mountains - Either for help, or more probably of such a loud lamentation that it reached the surrounding hills, and was re-echoed back to the city. Or perhaps it may mean that the shout or clamor of those engaged in building or defending the walls, reached to the mountains. Compare Virg. “AEncid,” iv. 668:

- resonat magnis plangoribus aether.

Rosenmuller renders it, ‘A cry - to the mountains!’ That is, a cry among the people to escape to the hills, and to seek refuge in the caves and fastnesses there (compare Judges 6:2; Matthew 24:16; Mark 13:14).


 
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