5. For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity, from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, in the valley of vision; a day of breaking down the wall, and of crying to the mountain:
6. --Elam beareth the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen; and Kir uncovereth the shield.
7. And it shall come to pass that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate.
8. And he uncovereth the covering of Judah: and thou didst look in that day to the armour in the house of the forest;
9. and ye have seen the breaches of the city of David, that they are many; and ye have gathered together the waters of the lower pool;