2A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
3For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
4The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
5The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
6He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
7The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
8And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
