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All your leaders have run away.
    They’ve been captured without a single arrow being shot.
All you who were caught were taken away as prisoners.
    You ran off while your enemies were still far away.
So I said, “Leave me alone.
    Let me weep bitter tears.
Don’t try to comfort me.
    My people have been destroyed.”

The Lord who rules over all sent the noise of battle against you.
    The Lord brought disorder and terror
    to the Valley of Vision.
The walls of the city were knocked down.
    Cries for help were heard in the mountains.

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All your leaders have fled(A) together;
    they have been captured(B) without using the bow.
All you who were caught were taken prisoner together,
    having fled while the enemy was still far away.
Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(C) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(D)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(E)
    of tumult and trampling(F) and terror(G)
    in the Valley of Vision,(H)
a day of battering down walls(I)
    and of crying out to the mountains.

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