⁴ So I say, “Don’t look at me.
    Let me ·cry loudly [weep bitterly].
Don’t hurry to ·comfort [console] me
    about the destruction of ·Jerusalem [or my vulnerable people; ^Lthe daughter of my people].”
⁵ The Lord God ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; ^Tof hosts] has ·chosen a special day [^La day]
    of ·riots [tumult] and confusion.
    ·People will trample each other […and trampling] in the Valley of Vision.
The city walls will be knocked down,
    and the people will cry out to the mountain.
⁶ ·The soldiers from Elam [^LElam] will ·gather their arrows [^Lpick up its quiver]
    and their chariots and men on horses.
    Kir will ·prepare [^Luncover] their shields.