⁶ Against a ^(A)godless nation I send him,
    and against the people of my wrath I command him,
to take ^(B)spoil and seize plunder,
    and to ^(C)tread them down like the mire of the streets.

² which ^(A)sends ambassadors by the sea,
    in vessels of papyrus on the waters!
Go, you swift messengers,
    to a nation ^(B)tall and smooth,
to a people feared near and far,
    a nation ^(C)mighty and conquering,
    whose land the rivers divide.