1. The oracle of the Valley of Vision. What ails you now,that you all have gone up to the housetops,
2. you who were full of noise,a tumultuous city, a joyous city?Your slain are not slain with the sword,nor did they die in battle.
3. All your rulers have fled together;they are captured by the archers.All of you who were found were taken captive together,although they had fled from afar.
4. Therefore, I say, “Look away from me,I will weep bitterly;do not try to comfort mebecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5. For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexityby the Lord God of Hostsin the Valley of Vision,a breaking down of the wallsand a crying to the mountains.
6. Elam took up the quiverwith chariots of men and horsemen,and Kir uncovered the shield.