3. Prepare ye the shield and buckler, and go forth to battle.
4. Harness the horses, and get up, ye horsemen: stand forth with helmets, furbish the spears, put on coats of mail.
5. What then? I have seen them dismayed, and turning their backs, their valiant ones slain: they fled apace, and they looked not back: terror was round about, saith the Lord.
6. Let not the swift flee away, nor the strong think to escape: they are overthrown, and fallen down, towards the north by the river Euphrates.
7. Who is this that cometh up as a flood: and his streams swell like those of rivers?