Nahum 2:1-10 ▼

1 The one scattering has come up before your face; guard the fortress, watch over the road; strengthen your loins, strengthen your power greatly!

2 For YHWH will restore the majesty of Jacob, like the majesty of Israel, for those emptying have emptied them and have ruined their branches.

3 The shields of his mighty men are red; the men of valor are clothed in scarlet; with fire of burning steel the chariots come on the day of his preparing, and the cypresses quiver.

4 Through the streets the chariots dash; they rush around in the squares; their appearance is like torches, like the lightning they run!

5 He summons his nobles, they stumble in their walk; they hurry to her wall, and the siege-cover is prepared.

6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

7 And it is established: She shall be ncovered and brought up, and her maidservants will be moaning as the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

8 And Nineveh was like a pool of water, from the days of her, and they flee: “Stand, stand,” and no one is turning back.

9 “Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!” And there is no end to the provision—the worth of every precious article.

10 Emptiness, an empty place and laid waste! The heart melts, and the knees shake, and there is anguish in all loins, and the faces of all of them are gathered to paleness!