⁵ Why was it, sea, that you fled?^(A)
    Why, Jordan, did you turn back?

⁸ Were you angry with the rivers,^(A) Lord?
    Was your wrath against the streams?
Did you rage against the sea^(B)
    when you rode your horses
    and your chariots to victory?^(C)

⁶ “‘Alas, sword^(A) of the Lord,
    how long till you rest?
Return to your sheath;
    cease and be still.’^(B)
7 But how can it rest
    when the Lord has commanded it,
when he has ordered it
    to attack Ashkelon and the coast?”^(C)