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NAHUM ยท Chapter 2
2:1 He that dashes in pieces has come up before your face: keep the
stronghold, watch the way, make your loins strong, fortify your power mightily.
2:2 For the LORD has turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency
of Israel: for the destroyers have emptied them out, and ruined their vine
branches.
2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in
scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation,
and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
2:4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall clash with one
against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall
run like the lightnings.
2:5 He shall recount his nobles: they shall stumble in their walk;
they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be
dissolved.
2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up,
and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, beating upon their
breasts.
2:8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee
away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
2:9 Take all of you the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for
there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the
knees strike together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of
them all gather blackness.
2:11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding-place of the
young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's
offspring, and none made them afraid?
2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled
for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
2:13 Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn
her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions:
and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers
shall no more be heard.
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