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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!| 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. 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. 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. 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. Nahum 2:1-5, New English Translation. Copyright © 1996-2017 by Biblical Studies Press.
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