3 “Arrange breastplate and shield! Advance to battle!
4 Harness the horses and mount, O horsemen! Take your position, with helmets! Polish the spears! Put on armor!
5 Why have I seen them? They are shattered, retreating, their warriors beaten, fleeing for cover, no turning back, terror on every side!” It is a declaration of Adonai.
6 “The swift cannot flee, nor the warrior escape. In the north by the river Euphrates They stumbled and fell.
7 Who is this, rising like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters churn?
8 Egypt rises like the Nile, like the rivers whose waters churn. He says: ‘I will rise up, I will cover the earth, I will destroy the city and its inhabitants!’
9 Prance, you horses, and rush madly, you chariots. Let the warriors go out— Cush and Put grasping the shield, Lydians grasping and bending the bow!