⁹ Raise the war cry,^[a](A) you nations, and be shattered!^(B)
    Listen, all you distant lands.
Prepare^(C) for battle, and be shattered!
    Prepare for battle, and be shattered!

¹⁰ All the nations surrounded me,
    but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.^(A)
11 They surrounded me^(B) on every side,^(C)
    but in the name of the Lord I cut them down.
¹² They swarmed around me like bees,^(D)
    but they were consumed as quickly as burning thorns;^(E)
    in the name of the Lord I cut them down.^(F)