¹⁵ Why has Apis^[a] fled?
    Why did your bull not stand?
    Because the Lord thrust him down.

¹⁵ For the Lord will come in fire
    and his chariots in a whirlwind,^[a]
to vent his anger in fury
    and his rebuke in flames of fire.^(A)
16 For by fire will the Lord execute judgment,
    and by his sword on all flesh;
    and those slain by the Lord shall be many.^(B)

² As smoke is driven away, so drive them away;
    as wax melts before the fire,
    let the wicked perish before God.^(A)

⁵ Why do I see them terrified?
    They have fallen back;
their warriors are beaten down
    and have fled in haste.
They do not look back—
    terror is all around!
            says the Lord.^(A)

³⁹ For you girded me with strength for the battle;
    you made my assailants sink under me.^(A)

¹⁴ And he sent out his arrows and scattered them;
    he flashed forth lightnings and routed them.^(A)

²¹ Even her mercenaries in her midst
    are like fatted calves;
they, too, have turned and fled together;
    they did not stand,
for the day of their calamity has come upon them,
    the time of their punishment.^(A)

² Judah became God’s^[a] sanctuary,
    Israel his dominion.^(A)

² you with your own hand drove out the nations,
    but them you planted;
you afflicted the peoples,
    but them you set free;^(A)