Nahum 2
The Overthrow of Nineveh
1 ▼
▼Ch 2:2 in Heb
The one who bscatters has come up against ▼▼Lit your face
you. Keep watch over the fortress, watch the road;
▼
▼Lit Strengthen your loins
Bind up your waist, ▼▼Lit strengthen power greatly
summon all your strength. 2 For the Lord will restore the fsplendor of Jacob
gLike the splendor of Israel,
Even though destroyers have laid waste to them
And hruined their vines.
3 The shields of ▼
▼I.e., those attacking Nineveh
his warriors are dyed red, The warriors are dressed in jscarlet,
The chariots are fitted with ▼
▼Lit fire of steel
flashing steel ▼
▼Lit On the day of his preparation
When he is prepared to march, And the juniper mspears are brandished.
4 The nchariots drive wildly in the streets,
They rush around in the ▼
▼Lit broad places
public squares; Their appearance is like torches,
They drive back and forth like lightning flashes.
5 He remembers his pofficers;
They qstumble in their advance,
They hurry to her wall,
And the ▼
▼I.e., a shield used for stopping projectiles
mantelet is set up. 6 The gates of the rivers are opened
And the palace sways back and forth.
7 It is set:
She is stripped, she is led away,
And her slave women are ssobbing like the sound of doves,
tBeating their ▼
▼Lit hearts
breasts. 8 Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,
Yet they are fleeing;
“Stop, stop,”
But vno one turns back.
9 Plunder the silver,
Plunder the wgold!
For there is no end to the treasure--
Wealth from every kind of desirable object.
10 She is xemptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
yHearts are melting and knees wobbling!
Also trembling is in ▼
▼Lit all the loins
the entire body, And all their aafaces have become pale!
11 Where is the den of the lions
And the feeding place of the abyoung lions,
Where the lion, lioness, and lion’s cub went
With nothing to disturb them?
12 The lion tore enough for his cubs,
▼
▼Lit Strangled
Killed enough prey for his lionesses, And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh. 13 “Behold, adI am against you,” declares the Lord of armies. “I will aeburn up her chariots in smoke, and a sword will devour your young lions; I will afeliminate your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard.”
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