¹⁶ He made many fall;
Yes, ^(A)one fell upon another.
And they said, ‘Arise!
^(B)Let us go back to our own people
And to the land of our nativity
From the oppressing sword.’

¹⁶ Cut off the sower from Babylon,
And him who handles the sickle at harvest time.
For fear of the oppressing sword
^(A)Everyone shall turn to his own people,
And everyone shall flee to his own land.

²¹ Also her mercenaries are in her midst like ^[a]fat bulls,
For they also are turned back,
They have fled away together.
They did not stand,
For ^(A)the day of their calamity had come upon them,
The time of their punishment.

⁶ “Do not let the swift flee away,
Nor the mighty man escape;
They will ^(A)stumble and fall
Toward the north, by the River Euphrates.