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.
8 The walls protecting Judah will fall.At that time the people of Jerusalem depended onthe weapons kept at the Palace of the Forest.
9 You saw that the walls of Jerusalemhad many cracks that needed repairing.You stored up water in the lower pool.