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All your leaders fled away together,
    they were captured without use of bow;
All who were found were captured together,
    though they had fled afar off.
That is why I say: Turn away from me,
    let me weep bitterly;
Do not try to comfort me
    for the ruin of the daughter of my people.(A)
It is a day of panic, rout and confusion,
    from the Lord, the God of hosts, in the Valley of Vision[a]
Walls crash;
    a cry for help to the mountains.

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Footnotes

  1. 22:5 Valley of Vision: frequently identified as the Hinnom Valley, west of Jerusalem.

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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