^{3 Ref} Prepare you the buckler and shield, and draw near to battle.

^{4 Ref} Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, put on the coats of mail.

^{5 Ref} Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

^{6 Ref} Don't let the swift flee away, nor the mighty man escape; in the north by the river Euphrates have they stumbled and fallen.

^{7 Ref} Who is this who rises up like the Nile, whose waters toss themselves like the rivers?

^{8 Ref} Egypt rises up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he says, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants of it.

^{9 Ref} Go up, you horses; and rage, you chariots; and let the mighty men go forth: Cush and Put, who handle the shield; and the Ludim, who handle and bend the bow.

^{10 Ref} For that day is [a day] of the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries: and the sword shall devour and be satiate, and shall drink its fill of their blood; for the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, has a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.