⁷ It happened that your choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate.

⁷ now therefore, behold, the Lord brings up on them the waters of the River, strong and many, [even] the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it shall come up over all its channels, and go over all its banks;

⁸ and it shall sweep onward into Judah; it shall overflow and pass through; it shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of its wings shall fill the breadth of your land, Immanuel.

²⁸ He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he lays up his baggage;

²⁹ they are gone over the pass; they have taken up their lodging at Geba; Ramah trembles; Gibeah of Saul is fled.

³⁰ Cry aloud with your voice, daughter of Gallim! listen, Laishah! You poor Anathoth!

³¹ Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

³² This very day shall he halt at Nob: he shakes his hand at the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.

³⁴ By the way that he came, by the same shall he return, and he shall not come to this city, says Yahweh.

¹ It happened when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and besieged it;

² in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, a breach was made in the city),

³ that all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, [to wit], Nergal Sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim, Rabsaris, Nergal Sharezer, Rabmag, with all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.