1. The destroyer is risen up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
2. For the Lord shall restore the glory of Jacob as the glory of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches.
3. The shield of his valiant ones shall be red, the men of his army are in scarlet, the chariot as fire of torches in the day which shall be made ready; the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4. The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall flow through the streets, their faces like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.
5. He shall remember his valiant ones; they shall stumble in their walk when they make haste to their wall, and the covering shall be prepared.