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Then I said, “Leave me alone!
    Let me cry bitter tears.
My people have been destroyed,
    so don't try to comfort me.”

The Lord All-Powerful
    had chosen a time
for noisy shouts and confusion
    to fill Vision Valley,
and for everyone to beg
    the mountains for help.[a]
The people of Elam and Kir[b]
attacked with chariots[c]
    and carried shields.

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Footnotes

  1. 22.5 and for … help: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 22.6 Elam and Kir: Regions in the Iranian highlands.
  3. 22.6 chariots: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

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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