^2 (A)Who stirred up one from the east
    whom victory meets at every ^(B)step?^[a]
(C)He gives up nations before him,
    so that he tramples kings underfoot;
he makes them like dust with his sword,
    ^(D)like driven stubble with his bow.

¹⁰ For they are ^(A)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    ^(B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.