4 Harness the horses;mount, O horsemen!Take your stations with your helmets, polish your spears,put on your armor!
5 Why have I seen it?They are dismayedand have turned backward.Their warriors are beaten downand have fled in haste; they look not back— terror on every side!declares the Lord.
6 “The swift cannot flee away,nor the warrior escape; in the north by the river Euphrates they have stumbled and fallen.
7 “Who is this, rising like the Nile,like rivers whose waters surge?
8 Egypt rises like the Nile,like rivers whose waters surge.He said, ‘I will rise, I will cover the earth,I will destroy cities and their inhabitants.’
9 Advance, O horses,and rage, O chariots!Let the warriors go out:men of Cush and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.
10 That day is the day of the Lord God of hosts, a day of vengeance, to avenge himself on his foes. The sword shall devour and be satedand drink its fill of their blood.For the Lord God of hosts holds a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.