⁵ They set the tables,
    they spread the rugs,
    they eat, they drink!^(A)
Get up, you officers,
    oil the shields!^(B)

²⁷ who says to the watery deep, ‘Be dry,
    and I will dry up^(A) your streams,’

³⁸ A drought on^[a] her waters!^(A)
    They will dry^(B) up.
For it is a land of idols,^(C)
    idols that will go mad with terror.

³⁹ “So desert creatures^(A) and hyenas will live there,
    and there the owl will dwell.
It will never again be inhabited
    or lived in from generation to generation.^(B)

“See, I will defend your cause^(A)
    and avenge^(B) you;
I will dry up^(C) her sea
    and make her springs dry.