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Nahum 2
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Chapter 2
to Judah
1
See, over the mountains the messenger hurries! ‘Peace!’ he proclaims. Judah, celebrate your feasts, carry out your vows, for Belial will never pass through you again; he is utterly annihilated.
3
Yes, Yahweh is restoring the vineyard of Jacob and the vineyard of Israel. For the plunderers had plundered them, they had broken off their branches.
The assault
2
A destroyer advances against you. Mount guard on the rampart, watch the road, tuck up your cloaks; muster all your forces.
4
The shields of his fighting men show red, his warriors are dressed in scarlet; all the steel of the chariots flashes as they are thrown into battle; the horsemen are impatient for action;
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the chariots storm through the streets, they hurtle across the squares; they look like blazing flames, like lightning they dash to and fro.
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The picked troops are called out; the columns clash, they hurl themselves against the rampart, the mantelet is already in place.
7
The gates that give on the river are opened, in the palace all is panic.
8
The Lady[*a] is carried off, taken into exile, her handmaids raise the dirge, with sighs like the moaning of doves, and beat their breasts.
9
Nineveh is like a pool whose waters are draining away. ‘Stop! Stop!’ But no one turns back.
10
‘Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!’ There are endless treasures, tons of valuables.
11
Raid and ravage and ruin! Heart fails and knees give way, fear is in the loins of all and every face grows pale.
The Lion of Assyria threatened
12
Where is the lions’ den, the cave of the lion’s whelps? When the lion made his foray the lioness stayed behind, the lion’s cubs too; and no one molested them.
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The lion clawed enough for his whelps, and tore up prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with his spoil, and his dens with the prey.
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I am here! Look to yourself! – It is Yahweh Sabaoth who speaks. I mean to send your chariots up in smoke; the sword shall devour your lion’s whelps. I will wipe the earth clean of your plunder, the voice of your envoys shall be heard no more.
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