Jericho is shut up tight. Nobody in, nobody out. And the plan they are given makes no sense as a plan: walk round the city once a day for six days and do not say a word. On the seventh day, walk round seven times, blow the horns, and shout.
No ladders. No battering ram. No siege. Six days of walking in silence looking daft, then one long note and a shout, and the walls go over.
Inside the city there is a woman with a red cord in her window. She hid the spies. When everything else comes down, her house is the one left standing.
So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.
The World English Bible. A modern English translation made from the Hebrew and Greek, in plain language, and in the public domain.
Round and round
Not a word
Round and round
Six days
Seven priests
Seven horns
Dust on the road
Sun on our backs
Nobody speaks
Nobody speaks
Day one (round)
Day two (round)
Day three, day four (round)
Day five, day six (round and round)
Shout! (Shout!)
Bring the walls down
Shout! (Shout!)
Bring the walls down
Seven times round on the seventh day
Open your mouth and the stone gives way
Seventh day
Sun not up
Seven times round
Horn in his hand
Hold it, hold it
Wait for the word
One more time (round)
One more time (round)
Seven times round (round and round)
Shout! (Shout!)
Bring the walls down
Shout! (Shout!)
Bring the walls down
Seven times round on the seventh day
Open your mouth and the stone gives way
Blow (Blow!) the horn
Long (Long!) and low
Now (Now!) let it go
Everybody shout
There's a red cord in a window
A woman who let us in
Her house is the one still standing
When everything else comes down
Shout... shout... shout...
Shout... shout... shout...
Shout! (Shout!)
Bring the walls down
Shout! (Shout!)
Bring the walls down
(Seven days, seven horns, one sound!)
Round and round
Not a word
Then a shout
And the walls came down