4. Harness your horses and mount them!Fall in line and put on your helmets!Sharpen your spears!Put on your armour!’
5. “But what do I see?” asks the Lord.“They are turning back in terror.Their soldiers are beaten back;overcome with fear, they run as fast as they canand do not look back.
6. Those who run fast cannot get away;the soldiers cannot escape.In the north, by the Euphrates,they stumble and fall.
7. Who is this that rises like the Nile,like a river flooding its banks?
8. It is Egypt, rising like the Nile,like a river flooding its banks.Egypt said, ‘I will rise and cover the world;I will destroy cities and the people who live there.
9. Command the horses to goand the chariots to roll!Send out the soldiers:men from Ethiopia and Libya, carrying shields,and skilled archers from Lydia.’ ”