³ Order ye the buckler and shield,
and draw near to battle.
⁴ Harness the horses;
and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets;
furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.
⁵ Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back?
and their mighty ones are beaten down,
and are fled apace, and look not back:
for fear was round about, saith the Lord.
⁶ Let not the swift flee away,
nor the mighty man escape;
they shall stumble,
and fall toward the north by the river Euphrates.

⁷ Who is this that cometh up as a flood,
whose waters are moved as the rivers?
⁸ Egypt riseth up like a flood,
and his waters are moved like the rivers;
and he saith, I will go up, and will cover the earth;
I will destroy the city and the inhabitants thereof.

⁹ Come up, ye horses; and rage, ye chariots;
and let the mighty men come forth;
the Ethiopians and the Libyans, that handle the shield;
and the Lydians, that handle and bend the bow.
¹⁰ For this is the day of the Lord God of hosts,
a day of vengeance, that he may avenge him of his adversaries:
and the sword shall devour,
and it shall be satiate and made drunk with their blood:
for the Lord God of hosts hath a sacrifice in the north country by the river Euphrates.

¹¹ Go up into Gilead, and take balm,
O virgin, the daughter of Egypt:
in vain shalt thou use many medicines;
for thou shalt not be cured.
¹² The nations have heard of thy shame,
and thy cry hath filled the land:
for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty,
and they are fallen both together.