^{1 Ref} The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

^{2 Ref} O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

^{3 Ref} All thy rulers fled away together, they were bound by the archers; all that were found of thee were bound together; they fled afar off.

^{4 Ref} Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

^{5 Ref} For it is a day of discomfiture, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a breaking down of the walls, and a crying to the mountains.

^{6 Ref} And Elam bare the quiver, with chariots of men `and' horsemen; and Kir uncovered the shield.

^{7 Ref} And it came to pass, that thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

^{8 Ref} And he took away the covering of Judah; and thou didst look in that day to the armor in the house of the forest.

^{9 Ref} And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;