Nahum 2
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1The watchmen of Nineveh shout: "An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!" "Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!" 1The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.
2For the LORD will restore the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though their enemies have plundered them and have destroyed their fields. 2For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.
3The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments. The metal fittings of the chariots shine like fire on the day of battle; the soldiers brandish their spears. 3The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.
4The chariots race madly through the streets, they rush back and forth in the broad plazas; they look like lightning bolts, they dash here and there like flashes of lightning. 4The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.
5The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower. 5He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.
6The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves. 6The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;
7Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts. 7its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
8Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: "Stop! Stop!"--but no one turns back. 8Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back.
9Her conquerors cry out: "Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing. 9Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
10Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale! 10Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
11Where now is the den of the lions, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them? 11Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
12The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey to provide food for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh. 12The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
13"I am against you!" declares the LORD who commands armies: "I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard." 13Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.
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Nahum 1
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