Nahum 2 : 1 (ESV)
The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength.
Nahum 2 : 2 (ESV)
For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches.
Nahum 2 : 3 (ESV)
The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.
Nahum 2 : 4 (ESV)
The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.
Nahum 2 : 5 (ESV)
He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up.
Nahum 2 : 6 (ESV)
The river gates are opened; the palace melts away;
Nahum 2 : 7 (ESV)
its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
Nahum 2 : 8 (ESV)
Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry, but none turns back.
Nahum 2 : 9 (ESV)
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
Nahum 2 : 10 (ESV)
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale!
Nahum 2 : 11 (ESV)
Where is the lions' den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
Nahum 2 : 12 (ESV)
The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
Nahum 2 : 13 (ESV)
Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD 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 no longer be heard.
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