⁵ The courageous were stripped of their spoil;
    they sank into sleep;
none of the troops
    was able to lift a hand.^(A)

⁶ At your rebuke, O God of Jacob,
    both rider and horse lay stunned.

¹⁰ Israel’s^[a] sentinels are blind;
    they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent dogs
    that cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
    loving to slumber.^(A)

⁵⁷ I will make her officials and her sages drunk,
    also her governors, her deputies, and her warriors;
they shall sleep a perpetual sleep and never wake,
    says the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.^(A)

⁵ He calls his officers;
    they stumble as they come forward;
they hasten to the wall,
    and the screen^[a] is set up.