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All your rulers have run away together, and were taken without using the bow. All of you who were found were taken away together, even though you had run far away. So I said, “Turn your eyes away from me. Let me cry with much sorrow. Do not try to comfort me about my people being destroyed.” For the Lord God of All has a day of fear, crushing down, and trouble in the Valley of Vision. There is a breaking down of walls and a crying out to the mountain.

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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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