1. The oracle concerning the valley of vision.What do you mean that you have gone up,all of you, to the housetops,
2. you who are full of shoutings,tumultuous city, exultant town?Your slain are not slain with the swordor dead in battle.
3. All your leaders have fled together;without the bow they were captured.All of you who were found were captured,though they had fled far away.
4. Therefore I said:“Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears;do not labor to comfort meconcerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”