Nahum 2

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¹ See, upon the mountains there advances the bearer of good news, announcing peace! Celebrate your feasts, O Judah, fulfill your vows! For nevermore shall you be invaded by the scoundrel; he is completely destroyed.	¹ The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
² The hammer comes up against you; guard the rampart, Keep watch on the road, gird your loins, marshall all your strength!	² (For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)
³ The LORD will restore the vine of Jacob, the pride of Israel, Though ravagers have ravaged them and ruined the tendrils.	³ The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.
⁴ The shields of his warriors are crimsoned, the soldiers colored in scarlet; Fiery steel are the chariots on the day of his mustering. The horses are frenzied;	⁴ The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.
⁵ the chariots dash madly through the streets And wheel in the squares, looking like firebrands, flashing like lightning bolts.	⁵ The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.
⁶ His picked troops are called, ranks break at their charge; To the wall they rush, the mantelet is set up.	⁶ The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;
⁷ The river gates are opened, the palace shudders,	⁷ its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.
⁸ Its mistress is led forth captive, and her handmaids, under guard, Moaning like doves, beating their breasts.	⁸ Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!" they cry; but none turns back.
⁹ Nineveh is like a pool whose waters escape; "Stop! Stop!" but none turns back.	⁹ Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.
¹⁰ "Plunder the silver, plunder the gold!" There is no end to the treasure, to their wealth in precious things of every kind!	¹⁰ Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
¹¹ Emptiness, desolation, waste; melting hearts and trembling knees, Writhing in every frame, every face blanched!	¹¹ Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
¹² Where is the lions' cave, the young lions' den, Where the lion went in and out, and the cub, with no one to disturb them?	¹² The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
¹³ The lion snatched enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses; He filled his dens with prey, and his caves with plunder.	¹³ Behold, I am against you, says 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 more be heard.
¹⁴ I come against you, says the LORD of hosts; I will consume in smoke your chariots, and the sword shall devour your young lions; Your preying on the land I will bring to an end, the cry of your lionesses shall be heard no more.