1. This is a message about the Valley of Vision:What is wrong with you people?Why are you on your roofs?
2. This city was a very busy city,full of noise and wild parties.Now your people have been killed,but not with swords,nor did they die in battle.
3. All your leaders ran away together,but they have been captured without using a bow.All you who were capturedtried to run away before the enemy came.
4. So I say, “Don’t look at me.Let me cry loudly.Don’t hurry to comfort meabout the destruction of Jerusalem.”
5. The Lord God All-Powerful has chosen a special dayof riots and confusion.People will trample each other in the Valley of Vision.The city walls will be knocked down,and the people will cry out to the mountain.
6. The soldiers from Elam will gather their arrowsand their chariots and men on horses.Kir will prepare their shields.
7. Your nicest valleys will be filled with chariots.Horsemen will be ordered to guard the gates of the city.