2For a day of dark and deep shade is near, a day of cloud and black night: like a black cloud a great and strong people is covering the mountains; there has never been any like them and will not be after them again, from generation to generation.
3Before them fire sends destruction, and after them flame is burning: the land is like the garden of Eden before them, and after them an unpeopled waste; truly, nothing has been kept safe from them.
4Their form is like the form of horses, and they are running like war-horses.
5Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.
6At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.
7They are running like strong men, they go over the wall like men of war; every man goes straight on his way, their lines are not broken.
8No one is pushing against another; everyone goes straight on his way: bursting through the sword points, their order is not broken.
