Arrange the table, lay out the carpet, eat and drink! Get up, you officers, smear oil on the shields!

The Elamites picked up the quiver, and came with chariots and horsemen; the men of Kir prepared the shield.

So this is what the Lord says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city, nor will he shoot an arrow here. He will not attack it with his shielded warriors, nor will he build siege works against it.