Nahum 2:8-13 ▼

8 Nineveh is a reservoir whose water is draining away. |Wait! Wait!| they cry, yet not even one person looks back.

9 Take the silver! Take the gold! There is no end to the treasure— fabulous riches of every imagination.

10 Nineveh is devastated, deserted, and desolate. Her heart melts, her knees knock. Every stomach is upset, every face grows pale.

11 Where is this lion's den? Where is the place where the young lions fed, where the lion and its mate walked with their young, the place where they feared nothing?

12 This lion renders its prey to pieces to feed its whelps, and strangles enough prey for its mate, filling its lairs with prey and its dens with rendered flesh.

13 |I am against you,| declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, |and I will send your chariots up in smoke. A sword will devour your young lions, I will eliminate your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.|