²⁴ He eats up the ground with fierceness and rage, Neither does he stand still at the sound of the trumpet.

¹⁶ If I had called, and he had answered me, Yet would I not believe that he listened to my voice.

²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

²⁰ Shall it be told him that I would speak? Or should a man wish that he were swallowed up?

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart; my heart is disquieted in me; I can't hold my peace; because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

⁶ Does the trumpet alarm sound in a city, Without the people being afraid? Does evil happen to a city, And Yahweh hasn't done it?

⁸ Their horses also are swifter than leopards, and are more fierce than the evening wolves. Their horsemen press proudly on. Yes, their horsemen come from afar. They fly as an eagle that hurries to devour.

⁹ All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand.

⁴¹ While they still didn't believe for joy, and wondered, he said to them, "Do you have anything here to eat?"