Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: What is the reason that all of you go up to the rooftops?

Her fortresses will be overgrown with thorns; thickets and weeds will grow in her fortified cities. Jackals will settle there; ostriches will live there.

On every high, elevated hill you prepare your bed; you go up there to offer sacrifices.

Look! The enemy is approaching like gathering clouds. The roar of his chariots is like that of a whirlwind. His horses move more swiftly than eagles.” I cry out, “We are doomed, for we will be destroyed!”

The Lord commanded the enemy, “March through the vineyards of Israel and Judah and ruin them. But do not destroy them completely. Strip off their branches for these people do not belong to the Lord.

‘Death has climbed in through our windows. It has entered into our fortified houses. It has taken away our children who play in the streets. It has taken away our young men who gather in the city squares.’

“The people of Judah are in mourning. The people in her cities are pining away. They lie on the ground expressing their sorrow. Cries of distress come up to me from Jerusalem.

People of Jerusalem, go up to Lebanon and cry out in mourning. Go to the land of Bashan and cry out loudly. Cry out in mourning from the mountains of Moab. For your allies have all been defeated.

But I will most surely heal the wounds of this city and restore it and its people to health. I will show them abundant peace and security.

The following events also occurred while the Babylonian forces had temporarily withdrawn from Jerusalem because the army of Pharaoh was coming.

So they pulled Jeremiah up from the cistern with ropes. Jeremiah, however, still remained confined to the courtyard of the guardhouse.

Harness the horses to the chariots! Mount your horses! Put on your helmets and take your positions! Sharpen you spears! Put on your armor!

The glory of the Lord rose up from within the city and stopped over the mountain east of it.

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the Lord.

She reared one of her cubs; he became a young lion. He learned to tear prey; he devoured people.

“For this is what the sovereign Lord says: Bring up an army against them and subject them to terror and plunder.

To arouse anger, to take vengeance, I have placed her blood on an exposed rock so that it cannot be covered up.

They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the ashes;

Then you will know that I am the Lord, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

I will turn you around and drag you along; I will lead you up from the remotest parts of the north and bring you against the mountains of Israel.