²⁴ With fierceness and rage it swallows the ground;
    it cannot stand still at the sound of the trumpet.^(A)

⁸ Their horses are swifter than leopards,
    more menacing than wolves at dusk;
    their horses charge.
Their horsemen come from far away;
    they fly like an eagle swift to devour.^(A)
9 They all come for violence,
    with faces pressing^[a] forward;
    they gather captives like sand.^(B)

⁶ Is a trumpet blown in a city,
    and the people are not afraid?
Does disaster befall a city
    unless the Lord has done it?^(A)

¹⁹ My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain!
    Oh, the walls of my heart!
My heart is beating wildly;
    I cannot keep silent,
for I^[a] hear the sound of the trumpet,
    the alarm of war.^(A)

²⁰ Should he be told that I want to speak?
    Did anyone ever wish to be swallowed up?

²⁴ I smiled on them when they had no confidence,
    and the light of my countenance they did not extinguish.^[a]

¹⁶ If I summoned him and he answered me,
    I do not believe that he would listen to my voice.