3All your rulers ... have gone in flight; all your strong ones have gone far away.
4For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.
5For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...
6And Elam was armed with arrows, and Aram came on horseback; and the breastplate of Kir was uncovered.
7And your most fertile valleys were full of war-carriages, and the horsemen took up their positions in front of the town.
8He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.
9And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.
