<p class="poetry">Why will your soldiers<n id="1" /> be defeated?<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will not stand because I, the <sc>Lordsc>, will thrust<n id="3" /> them down.p>

<p class="poetry">The snorting of the enemy&#8217;s horsesp> <p class="poetry">is already being heard in the city of Dan.p> <p class="poetry">The sound of the neighing of their stallions<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">causes the whole land to tremble with fear.p> <p class="poetry">They are coming to destroy the land and everything in it!p> <p class="poetry">They are coming to destroy<n id="2" /> the cities and everyone who lives in them!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">Fathers will hear the hoofbeats of the enemies&#8217; horses,p> <p class="poetry">the clatter of their chariots and the rumbling of their wheels.p> <p class="poetry">They will not turn back to save their childrenp> <p class="poetry">because they will be paralyzed with fear.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">&#8220;People of Babylonia,<n id="1" /> you plundered my people.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">That made you happy and glad.p> <p class="poetry">You frolic about like calves in a pasture.<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Your joyous sounds are like the neighs of a stallion.<n id="4" />p>