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Hear the crack of whips,
    the rumble of wheels!
Horses’ hooves pound,
    and chariots clatter wildly.
See the flashing swords and glittering spears
    as the charioteers charge past!
There are countless casualties,
    heaps of bodies—
so many bodies that
    people stumble over them.

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The crack of the whip
and rumble of the wheel,
galloping horse
and jolting chariot!(A)
Charging horseman,
flashing sword,
shining spear;
heaps of slain,
mounds of corpses,(B)
dead bodies without end(C)
they stumble over their dead.

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