CAB(i)
1 The word of the valley of Zion. What has happened to you, that you now are all going up to the housetops, which help you not?
2 The city is filled with shouting; your slain are not slain with swords, nor are your dead those who have died in battle.
3 All your princes have fled, and your captives are tightly bound, and the mighty men in you have fled far away.
4 Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.
5 For it is a day of trouble, and of destruction, and of treading down, and there is perplexity sent from the Lord of hosts; they wander in the valley of Zion; they wander from the least to the greatest on the mountains.
6 And the Elamites took their quivers, and there were men mounted on horses, and there was a gathering for battle.
7 And it shall be that your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.
8 And they shall uncover the gates of Judah, and they shall look in that day on the choice houses of the city.
9 And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David; and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city;