^{1 Ref} The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

^{2 Ref} You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

^{3 Ref} All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.

^{4 Ref} For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.