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Therefore I said, “Look away from me!
Let me weep bitterly—
don’t try to comfort me
    about the ruin of the daughter of my people.”

For my Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot has a day
of panic, trampling and confusion—
in the Valley of Vision—
of tearing down a wall,
a catastrophe on the mountain.
Elam took up the quiver,
with chariots of men and horsemen,
and Kir uncovered the shield.

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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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