¹⁹ Our pursuers were ^(A)swifter
Than the eagles of the heavens.
They pursued us on the mountains
And lay in wait for us in the wilderness.

¹³ “Behold, he shall come up like clouds,
And ^(A)his chariots like a whirlwind.
^(B)His horses are swifter than eagles.
Woe to us, for we are plundered!”

^26 (A)He will lift up a banner to the nations from afar,
And will ^(B)whistle to them from ^(C)the end of the earth;
Surely ^(D)they shall come with speed, swiftly.
²⁷ No one will be weary or stumble among them,
No one will slumber or sleep;
Nor ^(E)will the belt on their loins be loosed,
Nor the strap of their sandals be broken;
^28 (F)Whose arrows are sharp,
And all their bows bent;
Their horses’ hooves will ^[a]seem like flint,
And their wheels like a whirlwind.

^17 (A)One thousand shall flee at the threat of one,
At the threat of five you shall flee,
Till you are left as a ^[a]pole on top of a mountain
And as a banner on a hill.

“Strike the ^[a]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And ^(A)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
^(B)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

² “Though^(C) they dig into ^[b]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
^(D)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
³ And though they ^(E)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;