I pursue mine enemies, and overtake them, And turn back not till they are consumed.

And Thou girdest me [with] strength for battle, Causest my withstanders to bow under me.

They cry, and there is no saviour, On Jehovah, and He doth not answer them.

Cursed [is] he who is doing the work of Jehovah slothfully, And cursed [is] he Who is withholding his sword from blood.

And Jehovah cutteth off from Israel head and tail, Branch and reed -- the same day,

Elder, and accepted of face, he [is] the head, Prophet, teacher of falsehood, he [is] the tail.

And it cometh to pass, when Joshua and the sons of Israel finish to smite them -- a very great smiting, till they are consumed, and the remnant who have remained of them go in unto the fenced cities,

And if unto a city he is gathered, then they have caused all Israel to bear unto that city ropes, and we have drawn it unto the brook till that there hath not been found there even a stone.'

and David saith unto Abishai, 'Now doth Sheba son of Bichri do evil to us more than Absalom; thou, take the servants of thy lord, and pursue after him, lest he have found for himself fenced cities, and delivered himself [from] our eye.'

Wherefore are we sitting still? Be gathered, and we go in to the fenced cities, And we are silent there, For Jehovah our God hath made us silent, Yea, He causeth us to drink water of gall, For we have sinned against Jehovah.