No king [is] saved by the multitude of an army; A mighty man is not delivered by great strength.

A horse [is] a vain hope for safety; Neither shall it deliver [any] by its great strength.

"so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Ethiopians as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

And Hazael said, "Why is my lord weeping?" He answered, "Because I know the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: Their strongholds you will set on fire, and their young men you will kill with the sword; and you will dash their children, and rip open their women with child."

O daughter of Babylon, who are to be destroyed, Happy the one who repays you as you have served us!

Wail, for the day of the LORD [is] at hand! It will come as destruction from the Almighty.

Samaria is held guilty, For she has rebelled against her God. They shall fall by the sword, Their infants shall be dashed in pieces, And their women with child ripped open.

Thus says the LORD: "For three transgressions of the people of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away its [punishment,] Because they ripped open the women with child in Gilead, That they might enlarge their territory.

"Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands toward Him For the life of your young children, Who faint from hunger at the head of every street."

How the gold has become dim! [How] changed the fine gold! The stones of the sanctuary are scattered At the head of every street.

They have cast lots for My people, Have given a boy [as payment] for a harlot, And sold a girl for wine, that they may drink.

In the day that you stood on the other side -- In the day that strangers carried captive his forces, When foreigners entered his gates And cast lots for Jerusalem -- Even you [were] as one of them.