<t /><p class="poetry">Your shepherds<n id="1" /> are sleeping, O king of Assyria!p> <p class="poetry">Your officers<n id="2" /> are slumbering!<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">Your people are scattered like sheep<n id="4" /> on the mountainsp> <p class="poetry">and there is no one to regather them!p>

<t /><p class="poetry"><v id="(2:1)" /><n id="1" /> Look! A herald is running<n id="2" /> on the mountains!p> <p class="poetry">A messenger is proclaiming deliverance:<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah!p> <p class="poetry">Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God!<n id="4" />p> <p class="poetry">For never again<n id="5" /> will the wicked<n id="6" /> Assyrians<n id="7" /> invade<n id="8" /> you,p> <p class="poetry">they<n id="9" /> have been completely destroyed.&#8221;<n id="10" />p>