4 Therefore I said, ‘Turn away from me;let me weep bitterly.Do not try to console meover the destruction of my people.’
5 The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a dayof tumult and trampling and terrorin the Valley of Vision,a day of battering down wallsand of crying out to the mountains.
6 Elam takes up the quiver,with her charioteers and horses;Kir uncovers the shield.
7 Your choicest valleys are full of chariots,and horsemen are posted at the city gates.
8 The Lord stripped away the defences of Judah,and you looked in that dayto the weapons in the Palace of the Forest.
9 You saw that the walls of the City of Davidwere broken through in many places;you stored up waterin the Lower Pool.
10 You counted the buildings in Jerusalemand tore down houses to strengthen the wall.