1. The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee also, that thou too art wholly gone up to the housetops?
2. Full of clamour, a populous city, a joyous city: thy slain are not slain by the sword, nor dead in battle.
3. All the princes are fled together, and are bound hard: all that were found, are bound together, they are fled far off.
4. Therefore have I said: Depart from me, I will weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, for the devastation of the daughter of my people.
5. For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain.
6. And Elam took the quiver, the chariot of the horseman, and the shield was taken down from the wall.
7. And thy choice valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horseman shall place themselves in the gate.
8. And the covering of Juda shall be discovered, and thou shalt see in that day the armoury of the house of the forest.