<p class="poetry">For the <sc>Lordsc> will rise up, as he did at Mount Perazim,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">he will rouse himself, as he did in the Valley of Gibeon,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">to accomplish his work,p> <p class="poetry">his peculiar work,p> <p class="poetry">to perform his task,p> <p class="poetry">his strange task.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">They say, &#8220;Let him hurry, let him act quickly,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">so we can see;p> <p class="poetry">let the plan of the Holy One of Israel<n id="2" /> take shape<n id="3" /> and come to pass,p> <p class="poetry">then we will know it!&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">The <sc>Lordsc> has made them undiscerning;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">they lead Egypt astray in all she does,p> <p class="poetry">so that she is like a drunk sliding around in his own vomit.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="bodytext">But when<n id="1" /> the sovereign master<n id="2" /> finishes judging<n id="3" /> Mount Zion and Jerusalem, then I<n id="4" /> will punish the king of Assyria for what he has proudly planned and for the arrogant attitude he displays.<n id="5" />