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When they hear the noise of battle,
    the nations run away.
When you go to war,
    they run in every direction!
You nations, after the battle your valuable things will quickly disappear!
    It will seem like locusts have eaten them all.
Yes, we will take it all,
    like a hungry crowd of locusts.
The Lord is greater than all others.
    He lives high above the earth.
He will cause Zion's people to do what is right and fair.

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At the uproar of your army,(A) the peoples flee;(B)
    when you rise up,(C) the nations scatter.
Your plunder,(D) O nations, is harvested(E) as by young locusts;(F)
    like a swarm of locusts people pounce on it.

The Lord is exalted,(G) for he dwells on high;(H)
    he will fill Zion with his justice(I) and righteousness.(J)

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