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The crack of whip and rumble of wheel,
    galloping horse and bounding chariot!(A)
Horsemen charging,
    flashing sword and glittering spear,
piles of dead,
    heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
    they stumble over the bodies!(B)

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The crack of whips
    and the clamor of wheels!
The galloping horses
    and the bounding chariots!
The cavalry attacks—
    the flashing sword
        and the glittering spear!
Many are the slain—
    so many casualties!—
No end to bodies,
    and the soldiers[a] trip over the corpses.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:3 Lit. They