Nahum
2
- An attacker advances against you, Nineveh.
Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength
!
- The LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob
like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have
ruined their vines.
- The shields of his soldiers are red; the
warriors are clad in scarlet. The metal on the chariots flashes on the day
they are made ready; the spears of pine are brandished.
- The chariots storm through the streets,
rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches;
they dart about like lightning.
- He summons his picked troops, yet they stumble
on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in
place.
- The river gates are thrown open and the
palace collapses.
- It is decreed that the city be exiled and
carried away. Its slave girls moan like doves and beat upon their breasts.
- Nineveh is like a pool, and its water is
draining away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one turns back.
- Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The
supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures !
- She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts
melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.
- Where now is the lions' den, the place where
they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with
nothing to fear ?
- The lion killed enough for his cubs and
strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens
with the prey.
- "I am against you," declares the
LORD Almighty. "I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword
will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices
of your messengers will no longer be heard."
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