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All your rulers have fled together,
then captured without a bow.
All who were caught were taken into exile together,
    though they had fled far off.

Therefore I said, “Look away from me!
Let me weep bitterly—
don’t try to comfort me
    about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”

For my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot has a day
of panic, trampling and confusion—
in the Valley of Vision—
of tearing down a wall,
a catastrophe on the mountain.

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