3. All your rulers have fled together; without a bow they were taken captive. All who are found in you are bound together, who have fled from afar.
4. Therefore I said, “Look away from me, let me weep bitterly. Do not try to comfort me because of the ravaging of the daughter of my people.”
5. For it is a day of uproar and treading down and perplexity by the Master יהוה of hosts in the Valley of Vision – breaking down of a wall and of crying to the mountain.
6. And Ěylam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Qir bared the shield.
7. And it shall be that your choicest valleys shall be filled with chariots, and the horsemen shall take up positions at the gate.
8. Then He removed the covering of Yehuḏah. And you looked in that day to the weapons of the House of the Forest.
9. And you saw the breaches of the city of Dawiḏ, that it was great. And you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.