Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.

a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness! Like blackness there is spread upon the mountains a great and powerful people; their like has never been before, nor will be again after them through the years of all generations.

Fire devours before them, and behind them a flame burns. The land is like the garden of Eden before them, but behind them a desolate wilderness, and nothing escapes them.

Their appearance is like the appearance of horses, and like war horses they run.

As with the rumbling of chariots, they leap on the tops of the mountains, like the crackling of a flame of fire devouring the stubble, like a powerful army drawn up for battle.

Like warriors they charge; like soldiers they scale the wall. They march each on his way; they do not swerve from their paths.

They leap upon the city, they run upon the walls, they climb up into the houses, they enter through the windows like a thief.