With a noiseas of chariotsThey leapon the topsof the mountains,Like the cracklingof a flameof fireconsumingthe stubble,Like a mightypeoplearrangedfor battle.
"Do you make him leaplike the locust?His majesticsnortingis terrible.
So the peoplescatteredthrough allthe landof Egyptto gatherstubblefor straw.
And the LORDwill cause His voiceof authorityto be heard,And the descendingof His armto be seenin fierceanger,And [in] the flameof a consumingfireIn cloudburst,downpourand hailstones.
Therefore,as a tongueof fireconsumesstubbleAnd drygrasscollapsesinto the flame,So their rootwill becomelike rotand their blossomblowawayas dust;For they have rejectedthe lawof the LORDof hostsAnd despisedthe wordof the HolyOneof Israel.
"They seize[their] bowand javelin;They are crueland havenomercy.Their voiceroarslike the sea;And they rideon horses,Marshalledlike a manfor the battleAgainstyou, O daughterof Babylon.
"His winnowing forkis in His hand,and He will thoroughly clearHis threshing floor;and He will gatherHis wheatinto the barn,but He will burnup the chaffwith unquenchablefire."
They hadbreastplateslikebreastplatesof iron;and the soundof their wingswas likethe soundof chariots,of manyhorsesrushingto battle.
