1 This message came to me concerning Jerusalem—the Valley of Vision:What is happening?Why is everyone running to the rooftops?
2 The whole city is in a terrible uproar.What do I see in this reveling city?Bodies are lying everywhere,killed not in battle but by famine and disease.
3 All your leaders have fled.They surrendered without resistance.The people tried to slip away,but they were captured, too.
4 That’s why I said, “Leave me alone to weep;do not try to comfort me.Let me cry for my peopleas I watch them being destroyed.”
5 Oh, what a day of crushing defeat!What a day of confusion and terrorbrought by the Lord, the lord of Heaven’s Armies,upon the Valley of Vision!The walls of Jerusalem have been broken,and cries of death echo from the mountainsides.
6 Elamites are the archers,with their chariots and charioteers.The men of Kir hold up the shields.