1. An oracle about the Valley of Vision.What is wrong with you,that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
2. you who are filled with noise,you roaring city, you party town?Your dead weren’t slaughtered by the sword;they didn’t die in battle.
3. All your leaders escaped togetherbut were captured without a single bow shot.All your escapees were bound together, even though they fled far away.
4. Therefore, I said, "Don’t look at me;let me weep bitterly.Don’t try to comfort meabout the destruction of my dearly loved people."
5. The Lord God of heavenly forces has a day of tumult and trampling and turmoil in the Valley of Vision,a breaking down of walls,a cry for help to the mountains.
6. Elam carried the quiver with chariots and horsemen,and Kir uncovered the shield.
7. Your finest valleys were filled with chariots,and horsemen doggedly guarded the gate.