4. Therefore I said, “Turn away from me; let me weep bitterly. Do not try to console me over the destruction of my people.”
5. The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day of tumult and trampling and terror in the Valley of Vision, a day of battering down walls and 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 defenses of Judah, and you looked in that day to the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.