1. The oracle of the valley of vision: What business do you have going up, all of you, to the roofs,
2. noisy, tumultuous city, exultant town? Your slain are not slain by the sword, nor are they dead from battle.
3. All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of you who were found were captured. They were captured together; they had fled far away.
4. Therefore I said, “Look away from me, let me weep bitterly; you must not insist on comforting me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5. For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a tearing down of walls and a cry for help to the mountains.
6. And Elam lifted up the quiver, with chariots of men and cavalry. And Kir uncovered the shield.