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.
7. Your choicest valleys shall be full of chariots,and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8. And He shall remove the protection of Judah.You shall depend in that dayon the weapons of the house of the forest;