1. He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face keep the munition, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.
2. For the LORD hath turned away the excellence of Jacob, as the excellence of Israel for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
3. The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men [are] in scarlet the chariots [shall be] with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken.
4. The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
5. He shall recount his worthies they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.
6. The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
7. And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead [her] as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
8. But Nineveh [is] of old like a pool of water yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but none shall look back.
9. Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold for [there is] no end of the store [and] glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10. She is empty, and void, and waste and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
11. Where [is] the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, [even] the old lion, walked, [and] the lion's whelp, and none made [them] afraid?
12. The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
13. Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.