2. Full of stirs--a noisy city--an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.
3. 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. 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. 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. And Elam hath borne a quiver, In a chariot of men--horsemen, And Kir hath exposed a shield.
7. 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. And one removeth the covering of Judah, And thou lookest in that day Unto the armour of the house of the forest,
9. 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,
10. And the houses of Jerusalem ye did number, And ye break down the houses to fence the wall.