1 The burden of the valley of vision.
What ails you now, that you have all
gone up to the housetops?

2 You that are full of shouting, a tumultuous city, a joyous town, your slain are not
slain with the sword, neither are they dead
in battle.

3 All your rulers fled away together.
They were bound by the archers. All who
were found by you were bound together.
They fled far away

4 Therefore I said, “Look away from me.
I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort
me for the destruction of the daughter of
my people.

5 For it is a day of confusion, and of
treading down, and of perplexity from the
Lord, Yahweh of Armies, in the valley of
vision, a breaking down of the walls, and
a crying to the mountains.”

6 Elam carried his quiver, with chariots
of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovered
the shield.

7 Your choicest valleys were full of chariots,
and the horsemen set themselves in
array at the gate.

8 He took away the covering of Judah;
and you looked in that day to the armor in
the house of the forest.

9 You saw the breaches of David’s city,
that they were many; and you gathered
together the waters of the lower pool.

10 You counted the houses of Jerusalem,
and you broke down the houses to fortify
the wall.

11 You also made a reservoir between the
two walls for the water of the old pool. But
you didn’t look to him who had done this,
neither did you have respect for him who
planned it long ago.

12 In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of
Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to
baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;

13 and behold, there is joy and gladness,
killing cattle and killing sheep, eating meat
and drinking wine: “Let’s eat and drink,
for tomorrow we will die.”