3 “Prepare the buckler and shield,and draw near to battle!
4 Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen,and stand up with your helmets.Polish the spears,put on the coats of mail.
5 Why have I seen it?They are dismayed and are turned backward.Their mighty ones are beaten down,have fled in haste,and don’t look back.Terror is on every side,”says the Lord.
6 “Don’t let the swift flee away,nor the mighty man escape.In the north by the river Euphratesthey have stumbled and fallen.
7 “Who is this who rises up like the Nile,whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?
8 Egypt rises up like the Nile,and his waters toss themselves like the rivers.He says, ‘I will rise up. I will cover the earth.I will destroy cities and its inhabitants.’
9 Go up, you horses!Rage, you chariots!Let the mighty men go out:Cush and Put, who handle the shield;and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.