<p class="poetry">Travel to Tarshish!p> <p class="poetry">Wail, you residents of the coast!p>

<p class="poetry">Come through! Come through the gates!p> <p class="poetry">Prepare the way for the people!p> <p class="poetry">Build it! Build the roadway!p> <p class="poetry">Remove the stones!p> <p class="poetry">Lift a signal flag for the nations!p>

<p class="poetry">They went through the pass,p> <p class="poetry">spent the night at Geba.p> <p class="poetry">Ramah trembled,p> <p class="poetry">Gibeah of Saul ran away.p>

<p class="poetry">The earth is defiled by<n id="1" /> its inhabitants,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">for they have violated laws,p> <p class="poetry">disregarded the regulation,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">and broken the permanent treaty.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="poetry">Whenever it sweeps by, it will overtake you;p> <p class="poetry">indeed,<n id="1" /> every morning it will sweep by,p> <p class="poetry">it will come through during the day and the night.&#8221;<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">When this announcement is understood,p> <p class="poetry">it will cause nothing but terror.p>

<p class="poetry">For the fields of Heshbon are dried up,p> <p class="poetry">as well as the vines of Sibmah.p> <p class="poetry">The rulers of the nations trample all over its vines,p> <p class="poetry">which reach Jazer and spread to the desert;p> <p class="poetry">their shoots spread out and cross the sea.p>