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!’