4 ^aI will turn you around, put hooks into your jaws, and ^blead you out, with all your army, horses, and horsemen, ^call splendidly clothed, a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords.  ‡

5 Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya are with them, all of them with shield and helmet;  ‡

7 ^a“Prepare yourself and be ready, you and all your companies that are gathered about you; and be a guard for them.  ‡

8 ^aAfter many days ^byou will be visited. In the latter years you will come into the land of those brought back from the sword ^cand gathered from many people on ^dthe mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate; they were brought out of the nations, and now all of them ^edwell safely.  ‡