In their streets they wear sackcloth; on their roofs and in their town squares all of them wail, they fall down weeping.

Here is a message about the Valley of Vision: ¹  What is the reason ²  that all of you go up to the rooftops?

Their residents are powerless; ¹  they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. ²  They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops ³  when it is scorched by the east wind. ⁴