Advance, O horses, and rage, O chariots! Let the warriors go out: men of Cush and Put who handle the shield, men of Lud, skilled in handling the bow.
“Persia and Lud and Put were in your army as your men of war. They hung the shield and helmet in you; they gave you splendor.
and I will set a sign among them. And from them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away, that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations.
Cush was her strength; Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.
who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome,
The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.
At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of their wheels, the fathers look not back to their children, so feeble are their hands,
“Thus says the Lord: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.
Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
Egypt fathered Ludim, Anamim, Lehabim, Naphtuhim,
The sons of Ham: Cush, Egypt, Put, and Canaan.
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