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.
7 And this happened: the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots, and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate.
8 And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons of the House of the Forest,
9 and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.