Oracle against Jerusalem

22 The oracle of the valley of vision:⌊What business do you have going⌋[fn] up, all of you, to the roofs,

• 2 noisy ,[fn] tumultuous city, exultant town?
• Your slain are not slain by the sword,
  • nor are they dead from battle.
  • 3 All of your rulers have fled together without a bow; all of you who were found[fn] were captured.
• They were captured together;
  • they had fled far away.
  
  

4 Therefore I said,

• “Look away from me,
  • let me weep bitterly ;[fn]
  
  

you must not insist on comforting me

for the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

• 5 For the Lord Yahweh of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion[fn] in the valley of vision, a tearing down of walls[fn] and a cry for help to the mountains.[fn]
  • 6 And Elam lifted up the quiver, with chariots[fn] of men[fn] and cavalry.
• And Kir uncovered the shield.

7 And this happened:

• the choicest of your valleys were full of chariots,[fn]
  • and the cavalry confidently stood at the gate.
• 8 And he uncovered the covering of Judah. And you looked, on that day, to the weapons[fn] of the House of the Forest,
  • 9 and you saw that the breaches in the walls of the city of David were many, and you gathered the waters of the lower pool.
  • 10 And you counted the houses of Jerusalem, and you broke down the houses to fortify the wall.
• 11 And you made a reservoir between the walls for the waters of the old pool, but you did not look to its maker,
  • and you did not see the one who created it long ago .[fn]
  
  

12 And the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, called on that day

• for weeping and mourning,
  • and for baldness and girding with[fn] sackcloth.
  • 13 But look! Joy and gladness, the killing of oxen[fn] and the slaughtering of sheep,
• the eating of meat and the drinking of wine!
  • “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
  
  

14 And it was revealed in my ears by Yahweh of hosts:“Surely this sin will not be atoned for you until you die!”

says the Lord, Yahweh of hosts.