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.