4. saddle your horses,and polish your spears.Put on your helmets and armour,then take your positions.
5. I can see the battle now—you are defeatedand running away,never once looking back.Terror is all around.
6. You are strong and run fast,but you can't escape.You fall in battlenear the River Euphrates.
7. What nation is this,that rises like the River Nileoverflowing its banks?
8. It is Egypt, rising with a roarlike a raging riverand saying,“I'll flood the earth,destroying cities, and killingeveryone in them.”
9. Go ahead, Egypt.Tell your chariots and cavalryto attack and fight hard.Order your troops to march out,with Ethiopians and Libyanscarrying shields,and the Lydians armed with bowsand arrows.
10. But the Lord All-Powerfulwill win this battleand take revengeon his enemies.His sword will eat themand drink their blooduntil it is full.They will be killed in the northnear the River Euphrates,as a sacrifice to the Lord.
11. Egypt, no medicine can heal you,not even the soothing lotionfrom Gilead.
12. All nations have heard you weep;you are disgraced,and they know it.Your troops fall to the ground,stumbling over each other.
13-14. When King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia was on his way to attack Egypt, the Lord sent me with a warning for every Egyptian town, but especially for Migdol, Memphis, and Tahpanhes. He said I must tell them:Prepare to defend yourselves!Everywhere in your nation,people are dying in war.
15. I have struck downyour mighty god Apisand chased him away.
16. Your soldiers stumbleover each otherand say, “Get up!The enemy will kill us,unless we can escapeto our own land.”
17. Give the king of Egyptthis new name,“Talks-Big-Does-Nothing”.