1. The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts;watch the road;dress for battle;collect all your strength.
2. For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacobas the majesty of Israel,for plunderers have plundered themand ruined their branches.
3. The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.The chariots come with flashing metalon the day he musters them;the cypress spears are brandished.
4. The chariots race madly through the streets;they rush to and fro through the squares;they gleam like torches;they dart like lightning.
5. He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go,they hasten to the wall;the siege tower is set up.