1. The message about the Valley of Vision:What is wrong with you people?Why are you on your roofs?
2. This city was a very busy city.It was full of noise and wild parties.But your people have been killed,but not with swords.They did not die in battle.
3. All your leaders ran away together.But they all have been captured without using a bow.All you who were capturedtried to run away before the enemy came near.
4. So I say, “Don’t look at me.Let me cry loudly.Don’t hurry to comfort meabout the destruction of Jerusalem.”
5. The Master, the Lord of heaven’s armies, has chosen a special day.There will be riots and confusion.People will trample each other in the Valley of Vision.The city walls will be knocked down.The people will cry out to the mountain.
6. The soldiers from Elam will take their bags of arrows.Men in chariots and on horses will attack.Kir will prepare their shields.
7. Your nicest valleys will be filled with chariots.Horsemen will be ordered to guard the gates of the city.
8. The walls protecting Judah will fall.At that time the people of Jerusalem depended onthe weapons kept at the Palace of the Forest.
9. You saw that the walls of Jerusalemhad many cracks that needed repairing.You stored up water in the lower pool.
10. You counted the houses of Jerusalem.You tore them down to fix the walls with their stones.
11. You made a pool between the two walls.It was to save water from the old pool.But you did not trust the God who made these things.You did not respect the One who planned them long ago.