3 Prepare buckler and shield!move forward to battle!
4 Harness the horses,charioteers, mount up!Fall in, with helmets on;polish your spears, put on your armor.
5 What do I see?Are they panicking, falling apart?Their warriors are hammered back,They flee headlongnever making a stand.Terror on every side—oracle of the Lord!
6 The swift cannot flee,nor the warrior escape:There up north, on the banks of the Euphratesthey stumble and fall.
7 Who is this? Like the Nile, it rears up;like rivers, its waters surge.
8 Egypt rears up like the Nile,like rivers, its waters surge.“I will rear up,” it says, “and cover the earth,destroying the city and its people.
9 Forward, horses!charge, chariots!March forth, warriors,Cush and Put, bearing shields,Archers of Lud, stretching bows!”