“Look, waters are rising from the north,
    and they will become as a raging torrent,
and they will overflow the land,
    and that which fills it,
    the city and those who live in it.
And the people will cry out,
    and every inhabitant of the land will wail,
³ from the sound of the stamping of the hoofs of his stallions,
    from the clattering of his chariots,^[b]
    the noise of their wheels.
Fathers do not turn to their children
    because of the slackness of their hands.