How can you drowse,

Lost in dreams,

When Ashur’s rams

Are battering the gates?

Who shall waken the fools? Who make the deaf hear?

Baruch

[Ecstatically] You, master. Cry aloud. Awaken them. Save them from the jaws of death.

Jeremiah

Awaken, awaken, up and away!

The land is afire, the foe holds the town!