⁶ “The fast runners cannot ·run away [flee];
    the strong soldiers cannot escape.
They stumble and fall
    in the north, by the Euphrates River.
⁷ Who is this, rising up like the Nile River,
    like ·strong, fast rivers [rivers whose waters surge]?
⁸ Egypt rises up like the Nile River,
    like ·strong, fast rivers [rivers whose waters surge].
Egypt says, ‘I will rise up and cover the earth.
    I will destroy cities and the people in them!’