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Vision of Jerusalem’s Catastrophe

22 The burden of the Valley of Vision:

What is the matter with you now?
For you have gone up to the rooftops.
You were full of noise,
a boisterous city, an exultant town?
Your dead were not slain with the sword,
    nor dead in battle.

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.

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