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The burden of the valley of vision. What ayleth thee now, that thou art wholly gone vp to the house toppes?

Thou that art full of stirres, a tumultuous citie, a ioyous citie: thy slaine men are not slaine with the sword, nor dead in battell.

All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which haue fled from farre.

Therefore sayd I; Looke away from me, I will weepe bitterly, labour not to comfort me; because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

For it is a day of trouble, and of treading downe, and of perplexitie by the Lord God of hostes in the valley of vision, breaking downe the walles, and of crying to the mountaines.

And Elam bare the quiuer with charets of men and horsemen, and Kir vncouered the shield.

And it shall come to passe that thy choicest valleys shall be full of charets, and the horsemen shall set themselues in aray at the gate.

And he discouered the couering of Iudah, and thou diddest looke in that day to the armour of the house of the forrest.

Ye haue seene also the breaches of the citie of Dauid, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower poole.

And ye haue numbred the houses of Ierusalem, and the houses haue yee broken downe to fortifie the wall.

Ye made also a ditch betweene the two walles, for the water of the olde poole: but ye haue not looked vnto the maker thereof, neither had respect vnto him that fashioned it long agoe.

And in that day did the Lord God of hostes call to weeping and to mourning, and to baldnesse, and to girding with sackecloth.

And behold ioy and gladnesse, slaying oxen and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine; let vs eate and drinke, for to morrow we shall die.

And it was reuealed in mine eares by the Lord of hostes; surely this iniquitie shall not be purged from you, till yee die, sayth the Lord God of hostes.