1. Pre-Exile: The Judgment & Blessing Cycles (1:1 - 39:8) - 740-709 B.C., Israel
(These 2 groups of prophecies concentrate first on Judah & Jerusalem then on the Nations.)

B. Cycles of Prophecy for the Nations & Judah ["The Book of Burdens" (Utterances, Oracles)] - (13:1 - 23:18)
Note: "Burden" (KJV) refers to burdensome Judgments on the various nations.

Cycle 10 - The Burden of the Valley of Vision [Jerusalem] (22:1-25)

a. Judgment: Siege of Jerusalem by Assyria (22:1-19)

¹ The burden of the valley of vision.

What aileth thee now [What now],
that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?
² Thou that art full of stirs,
a tumultuous city,
a joyous city:
thy slain men are not slain with the sword,
nor dead in battle.
³ All thy rulers are fled together,
they are bound by the archers:
all that are found in thee are bound together,
which have fled from far.
⁴ Therefore said I,
Look away from me;
I will weep bitterly,
labour not to comfort me,
because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

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.
⁶ And Elam bare the quiver
with chariots of men
and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.
⁷ And it shall come to pass,
that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,
and the horsemen shall set themselves in array [setting they are set] at the gate.
⁸ And he discovered the covering of Judah,