⁴ Harness the horses, and get up, you horsemen,
    and stand up with your helmets.
Polish the spears,
    put on the coats of mail.
⁵ Why have I seen it?
    They are dismayed and are turned backward.
Their mighty ones are beaten down,
    have fled in haste,
    and don’t look back.
Terror is on every side,”
    says Yahweh.
⁶ “Don’t let the swift flee away,
    nor the mighty man escape.
In the north by the river Euphrates
    they have stumbled and fallen.