3 “Get your large and small shields ready; advance into battle.
4 Harness your horses. Mount up, you horsemen.Take your positions, and put on your helmets.Polish your spears.Put on your armor.
5 “What do I see in them?They are terrified.They are retreating.Their warriors are defeated.They flee without looking back.Terror is all around them,” declares the Lord.
6 “The infantry can’t flee.The warriors can’t escape.They stumble and fall in the north by the Euphrates River.
7 Who is this, rising like the Nile River,like streams that flow swiftly?
8 Egypt is like the rising Nile River,like a river quickly overflowing its banks.Egypt says, ‘I will rise; I will cover the earth.I will destroy cities and the people in them.’
9 Go into battle, you horsemen.Drive wildly, you chariot drivers.March into battle, you warriors,you warriors from Sudan and Put who carry shields,you warriors from Lydia who use bows and arrows.