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From his place he flees in terror,

Or the Wind can give him refuge.

Sometimes he must flee before him;

Multitudes at times support him;

And all slaughter each the other,

Wasting with great wrath each other.

Mighty men of both the sovereigns

Slaughtered fall, with yet no bloodshed,

Ethiopia sometimes triumphs,

Edom flees away before her;

Now victorious is Edom:

Ethiopia and her sovereign

Are defeated in the battle.

Should a King in the destruction

Fall within the foeman's power,

He is never granted mercy,

Neither refuge nor deliv'rance,

Nor a flight to refuge-city.