Nahum 2
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He that dasheth in pieces is come up
before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
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2 |
For the LORD hath
turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel:
for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine
branches.
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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.
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4 |
The chariots shall rage in the streets,
they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall
seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
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5 |
He shall recount his worthies: they shall
stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof,
and the defense shall be prepared.
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6 |
The gates of the rivers shall be opened,
and the palace shall be dissolved.
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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, taboring upon their breasts.
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8 |
But Nin'eveh is of old like a pool
of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they
cry; but none shall look back.
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9 |
Take ye 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.
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10 |
She is empty, and void, and waste: and
the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather
blackness.
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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 whelp, and
none made them afraid?
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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.
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The Utter Ruin of
Nineveh |
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Behold, I am against thee, saith
the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots
in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will
cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers
shall no more be heard.
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