1. A prophecy against the Valley of Vision:What troubles you now,that you have all gone up on the roofs,
2. you town so full of commotion,you city of tumult and revelry?Your slain were not killed by the sword,nor did they die in battle.
3. All your leaders have fled together;they have been captured without using the bow.All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,having fled while the enemy was still far away.
4. Therefore I said, ‘Turn away from me;let me weep bitterly.Do not try to console meover the destruction of my people.’
5. The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a dayof tumult and trampling and terrorin the Valley of Vision,a day of battering down wallsand of crying out to the mountains.
6. Elam takes up the quiver,with her charioteers and horses;Kir uncovers the shield.
7. Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8. The Lord stripped away the defences of Judah,and you looked in that dayto the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9. You saw that the walls of the City of Davidwere broken through in many places;you stored up waterin the Lower Pool.
10. You counted the buildings in Jerusalemand tore down houses to strengthen the wall.
11. You built a reservoir between the two wallsfor the water of the Old Pool,but you did not look to the One who made it,or have regard for the One who planned it long ago.
12. The Lord, the Lord Almighty,called you on that dayto weep and to wail,to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.