Therefore I said, “Look away from me,
(A)I will weep bitterly;
Do not labor to comfort me
Because of the plundering of the daughter of my people.”

(B)For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity
(C)By the Lord God of hosts
In the Valley of Vision—
Breaking down the walls
And of crying to the mountain.
(D)Elam bore the quiver
With chariots of men and horsemen,
And (E)Kir uncovered the shield.

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Therefore I said, “Turn away from me;
    let me weep(A) bitterly.
Do not try to console me
    over the destruction of my people.”(B)

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(C)
    of tumult and trampling(D) and terror(E)
    in the Valley of Vision,(F)
a day of battering down walls(G)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
Elam(H) takes up the quiver,(I)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir(J) uncovers the shield.

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