^{1 2} He who scatters has come·​·up before thy face. Preserve the siege, watch the way, make·​·firm thy loins, encourage thy power exceedingly.

^{2 3} For Jehovah has turned·​·back the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for they who exhaust have exhausted them, and destroyed their sprigs.

^{3 4} The shield of his heroes^* is made red, the men^◦ of valor are made scarlet; in the fire of torches is the chariot, in the day of his preparation, and the fir·​·trees shall be·​·in·​·trepidation.

^{4 5} The chariots shall rave in the streets; they shall jostle against each other in the avenues; their appearance shall be as torches; they shall run as the lightnings.

^{5 6} He shall remember his magnificent ones; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall make·​·haste to her wall, and the shelter shall be prepared.

^{6 7} The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace^◦ shall be dissolved.

^{7 8} And Huzzab shall be exiled, she shall be brought·​·up, and her maidservants shall direct her as the voice of doves, playing·​·on·​·timbrels on their hearts.

^{8 9} But Nineveh was as a pool of water from the days that she^◦ was; but now they^◦ shall flee. Stand, Stand, they cry, but none shall turn· their ·face.

^{9 10} Plunder silver, Plunder gold; and there is no end to the dimension of glory from all the vessels of desire.

^{10 11} She exhausts, and is·​·exhausted, and emptied·​·out^◦; and the heart melts, and there is staggering at the knees, and travailing in all the loins, and the faces of all of them bring·​·together a blackening^◦.

^{11 12} Where^◦ is the abode of the lions, and the feeding·​·place—it^◦ was for the young·​·lions—Where the lion, the old·​·lion walked, and the whelp of a lion, and none frightened them?

^{12 13} The lion tore enough for his whelps, and strangled for his old·​·lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his abodes with what is torn.

^{13 14} Behold, I am against^▵ thee, says^◦ Jehovah of Armies, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall eat·​·up thy young·​·lions; and I will cut·​·off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall not be heard any·​·more.