4. So I say, “Don’t look at me.Let me cry loudly.Don’t hurry to comfort meabout the destruction of Jerusalem.”
5. The Lord God All-Powerful has chosen a special dayof riots and confusion.People will trample each other in the Valley of Vision.The city walls will be knocked down,and the people will cry out to the mountain.
6. The soldiers from Elam will gather their arrowsand their chariots and men on horses.Kir will prepare their shields.
7. Your nicest valleys will be filled with chariots.Horsemen will be ordered to guard the gates of the city.
8. The walls protecting Judah will fall.At that time the people of Jerusalem depended onthe weapons kept at the Palace of the Forest.