5 As with the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains they keep skipping about,+ as with the sound of a flaming fire that is devouring stubble.+ It is like a mighty people, drawn up in battle order.+

10 Although they are being interwoven even as thorns+ and they are drunken as with their wheat beer,*+ they will certainly be devoured like stubble fully dry.+

4* “For, look! the day is coming that is burning like the furnace,+ and all the presumptuous ones and all those doing wickedness must become as stubble.+ And the day that is coming will certainly devour them,” Jehovah of armies has said, “so that it will not leave to them either root or bough.+