⁵ The courageous were stripped of their spoil;
    they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
    was able to lift a hand.^(A)

⁷ Therefore all hands will be feeble,
    and every human heart will melt,^(A)

⁸     and they will be terrified.
Pangs and agony will seize them;
    they will be in anguish like a woman in labor.
They will look aghast at one another;
    their faces will be aflame.^(A)

³⁶ A sword against the diviners,
    so that they may become fools!
A sword against her warriors,
    so that they may be dismayed!^(A)

³⁷ A sword against her^[a] horses and against her^[b] chariots
    and against all the foreign troops in her midst,
    so that they may become women!
A sword against her treasures,
    that they may be plundered!^(A)

⁵ I will break the gate bars of Damascus
    and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven
and the one who holds the scepter from Beth-eden,
    and the people of Aram shall go into exile to Kir,
            says the Lord.^(A)

¹³ Look at your troops:
    they are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
    are wide open to your foes;
    fire has devoured the bars of your gates.^(A)