The burden of Ge-ĥizzayon (the Valley of Vision.) What ails thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

Thou that art full of uproar, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the bowmen: all that are found in thee are bound together; they have fled from far.

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of trouble, and of trampling, and of confusion by the Lord God of hosts in Ge-ĥizzayon (the Valley of Vision), a breaking down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

And ῾Elam bore the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Qir uncovered the shield.

And it came to pass, when thy choicest valleys were full of chariots, and the horsemen set themselves in array at the gate,

and he stripped the covering of Yehuda, that thou didst look on that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

You saw also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and you gathered together the waters of the lower pool.

And you numbered the houses of Yerushalayim, and the houses you broke down to fortify the wall.

You made also a pond between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but you did not look to him who made it, nor did you see him that fashioned it long ago.

And on that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating meat, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for to morrow we shall die.

And it was revealed in my ears, by the Lord of hosts: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, says the Lord God of hosts.

Thus says the Lord God of hosts, Go, get thee to this steward, to Shevna who is over the house.

Say to him, What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a tomb here, hewing out a tomb on high, carving a habitation for himself in a rock?

Behold, the Lord will thrust thee about with a mighty throw, and will seize thee firmly.

He will violently roll and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there shall be the chariots of thy glory, O shame of thy master’s house.

And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

And it shall come to pass on that day, that I will call my servant Elyaqim the son of Ḥilqiyyahu.

And I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Yerushalayim and to the house of Yehuda.

And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut: and he shall shut, and none shall open.

And I will fasten him as a tent peg in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father’s house.

And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

On that day, says the Lord of hosts, shall the tent peg that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord has spoken it.