and Sheba doth fall, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

While this one is speaking another also hath come and saith, 'Chaldeans made three heads, and rush on the camels, and take them, and the young men they have smitten by the mouth of the sword, and I am escaped -- only I alone -- to declare it to thee.'

In famine He hath redeemed thee from death, And in battle from the hands of the sword.

He believeth not to return from darkness, And watched is he for the sword.

Be ye afraid because of the sword, For furious are the punishments of the sword, That ye may know that there is a judgment.

If his sons multiply -- for them is a sword. And his offspring are not satisfied with bread.

He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted, And he turneth not back from the face of the sword.

He is a beginning of the ways of God, His Maker bringeth nigh his sword;

The sword of his overtaker standeth not, Spear -- dart -- and lance.