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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.
5
For it is a day of confusion, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.
6
Elam bore the quiver, with chariots of men [and] horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.
7
It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.
8
He took away the covering of Judah; and you did look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.
9
You saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool;