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1 The watchmen of Nineveh shout: |An enemy who will scatter you is marching out to attack you!| |Guard the rampart! Watch the road! Prepare yourselves for battle! Muster your mighty strength!| The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength. An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!
2 For the LORD will restore the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though their enemies have plundered them and have destroyed their fields. For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches. The LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
3 The shields of his warriors are dyed red; the mighty soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments. The metal fittings of the chariots shine like fire on the day of battle; the soldiers brandish their spears. 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. The shields of the 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 juniper are brandished.
4 The chariots race madly through the streets, they rush back and forth in the broad plazas; they look like lightning bolts, they dash here and there like flashes of lightning. The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.
5 The commander orders his officers; they stumble as they advance; they rush to the city wall and they set up the covered siege tower. He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up. Nineveh summons her picked troops, yet they stumble on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in place.
6 The sluice gates are opened; the royal palace is deluged and dissolves. The river gates are opened; the palace melts away; The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
7 Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts. its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts. It is decreed that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.
8 Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, but now her people are running away; she cries out: |Stop! Stop!|--but no one turns back. Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back. Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
9 Her conquerors cry out: |Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!| There is no end to the treasure; riches of every kind of precious thing. Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!
10 Destruction, devastation, and desolation! Their hearts faint, their knees tremble, each stomach churns, each face turns pale! Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale! She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.
11 Where now is the den of the lions, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion, lioness, and lion cub once prowled and no one disturbed them? 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? 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?
12 The lion tore apart as much prey as his cubs needed and strangled prey to provide food for his lionesses; he filled his lairs with prey and his dens with torn flesh. 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. 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.
13 |I am against you!| declares the LORD who commands armies: |I will burn your chariots with fire; the sword will devour your young lions; you will no longer prey upon the land; the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.| 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. “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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