1. The message concerning the Valley of Vision. What troubles you now, that you have all gone up to the house-tops,
2. you who are filled with turmoils, a noisy city, a city of revelry? Your slain are not slain with the sword, nor the dead in battle.
3. All your rulers have fled together; without a bow they were taken captive. All who are found in you are bound together, who have fled from afar.
4. Therefore I said, “Look away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me because of the ravaging of the daughter of my people.”
5. For it is a day of uproar and treading down and perplexity by the Master יהוה of hosts in the Valley of Vision – breaking down of a wall and of crying to the mountain.