The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
Rashi
the Valley of Vision This is Jerusalem, the valley concerning which most prophecies were prophesied. that all of you have gone up to the rooftops When an army comes upon them, they go up to their roofs to see the army and to fight. Our Rabbis, however, explained this concerning the priests who went up to the roof of the Temple with the keys of the forecourt in their hands, as is stated in the Tractate Taanith (29a). The Midrash Aggadah, however, states that they, (the people of Jerusalem,) were haughty. (This is found) in Lamentations Rabbah (Int. 24).
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