^{1 Ref} The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?

^{2 Ref} Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.

^{3 Ref} All thy rulers fled together from the bow, Bound have been all found of thee, They have been kept bound together, Afar off they have fled.

^{4 Ref} Therefore I said, `Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

^{5 Ref} For a day of noise, and of treading down, And of perplexity, `is' to the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, In the valley of vision, digging down a wall, And crying unto the mountain.

^{6 Ref} And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men -- horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.

^{7 Ref} And it cometh to pass, The choice of thy valleys have been full of chariots, And the horsemen place themselves diligently at the gate.

^{8 Ref} And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,

^{9 Ref} And the breaches of the city of David ye have seen, For they have become many, And ye gather the waters of the lower pool,