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The Lord All-Powerful
    had chosen a time
for noisy shouts and confusion
    to fill Vision Valley,
and for everyone to beg
    the mountains for help.[a]
The people of Elam and Kir[b]
attacked with chariots[c]
    and carried shields.
Your most beautiful valleys
    were covered with chariots;
your cities were surrounded
by cavalry troops.

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Footnotes

  1. 22.5 and for … help: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 22.6 Elam and Kir: Regions in the Iranian highlands.
  3. 22.6 chariots: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.

The Lord, the Lord Almighty, has a day(A)
    of tumult and trampling(B) and terror(C)
    in the Valley of Vision,(D)
a day of battering down walls(E)
    and of crying out to the mountains.
Elam(F) takes up the quiver,(G)
    with her charioteers and horses;
    Kir(H) uncovers the shield.
Your choicest valleys(I) are full of chariots,
    and horsemen are posted at the city gates.(J)

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