²⁴ He is stamping with joy in the valley; he makes sport of fear.

¹⁶ If I had sent for him to be present, and he had come, I would have no faith that he would give ear to my voice.

²⁴ I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

²⁰ How may he have knowledge of my desire for talk with him? or did any man ever say, May destruction come on me?

¹⁹ My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.

⁶ If the horn is sounded in the town will the people not be full of fear? will evil come on a town if the Lord has not done it?

⁸ And their horses are quicker than leopards and their horsemen more cruel than evening wolves; they come from far away, like an eagle in flight rushing on its food.

⁹ They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.

⁴¹ And because, for joy and wonder, they were still in doubt, he said to them, Have you any food here?