Say, ‘Take your positions and prepare yourselves,

For a sword will devour all around you.

 4 A sword will come against Egypt, and panic will overtake E·thi·oʹpi·a when the slain fall in Egypt;

Its wealth is taken and its foundations are torn down.+

12 I will cause your hordes to fall by the swords of mighty warriors,

The most ruthless of the nations, all of them.+