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So I said, “Turn your eyes away from me. Let me cry with much sorrow. Do not try to comfort me about my people being destroyed.” For the Lord God of All has a day of fear, crushing down, and trouble in the Valley of Vision. There is a breaking down of walls and a crying out to the mountain. Elam took up the arrows with the war-wagons, soldiers and horsemen. And Kir let the battle-covering be seen.

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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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