1 The oracle concerning the valley of vision.What do you mean that you have gone up,all of you, to the housetops,
2 you who are full of shoutings,tumultuous city, exultant town?Your slain are not slain with the swordor dead in battle.
3 All your leaders have fled together;without the bow they were captured.All of you who were found were captured,though they had fled far away.
4 Therefore I said:“Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears;do not labor to comfort meconcerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”
5 For the Lord God of hosts has a dayof tumult and trampling and confusionin the valley of vision,a battering down of wallsand a shouting to the mountains.
6 And Elam bore the quiverwith chariots and horsemen,and Kir uncovered the shield.