1. The burden of the Valley of Vision: What is the matter with you now? For you have gone up to the rooftops.
2. You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.
3. All your rulers have fled together, then captured without a bow. All who were caught were taken into exile together, though they had fled far off.
4. Therefore I said, “Look away from me! Let me weep bitterly— don’t try to comfort me about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”
5. For my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot has a day of panic, trampling and confusion— in the Valley of Vision— of tearing down a wall, a catastrophe on the mountain.
6. Elam took up the quiver, with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield.
7. So it will come to pass that your choicest valleys will be full of chariots and horsemen posted at the gate.
8. So He will expose Judah’s defense, and in that day you will look for the armor in the Forest House.
9. Then you will see the breaches in the walls of the city of David—for they will be many—though you collect the water of the lower pool.