| 2 | Nahum | ||
| 1 | The shatterer has come against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength. | The fall of Nineveh. Na.2.1-3.18 | |
| 2 | (For Yahweh is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.) | ||
| 3 | The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance. | ||
| 4 | The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning. | ||
| 5 | The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up. | ||
| 6 | The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay; | ||
| 7 | its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts. | ||
| 8 | Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt1 Halt!" they cry; but none turns back. | ||
| 9 | Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing. | ||
| 10 | Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale! | ||
| 11 | Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb? | ||
| 12 | The lion tore enough for his welps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh. | ||
| 13 | Behold, I am against you, says Yahweh 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 be no more heard. | ||
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