1
The burden of the valley of vision. What ails you now, that you are wholly gone up to the housetops?
2
You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; your slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.
3
All your rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all who were found of you were bound together; they fled afar off.
4
Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; don`t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.