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.