<p class="bodytext">&#8220;They have blown the trumpet and everyone is ready, but no one goes to battle, because my anger is against their whole crowd.<n id="1" />

You have not gone up in the breaks in the wall, nor repaired a wall for the house of Israel that it would stand strong in the battle on the day of the <sc>Lordsc>.

You will fill up at my table with horses and charioteers,<n id="1" /> with warriors and all the soldiers,&#8217; declares the sovereign <sc>Lordsc>.p>

Pharaoh with his great army and mighty horde will not help<n id="1" /> him in battle, when siege ramps are erected and siege-walls are built to kill many people.

<p class="poetry">Men of Persia, Lud,<n id="1" /> and Put were in your army, men of war.p> <p class="poetry">They hung shield and helmet on you; they gave you your splendor.p>

<p class="poetry">Your wealth, products, and merchandise, your sailors and captains,p> <p class="poetry">your ship&#8217;s carpenters,<n id="1" /> your merchants,p> <p class="poetry">and all your fighting men within you,p> <p class="poetry">along with all your crew who are in you,p> <p class="poetry">will fall into the heart of the seas on the day of your downfall.p>

They do not lie with the fallen warriors of ancient times,<n id="1" /> who went down to Sheol with their weapons of war, having their swords placed under their heads and their shields on their bones,<n id="2" /> when the terror of these warriors was in the land of the living.p>