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Nahum 2 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:1 - (LXX 2:2) It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen thy loins, be very valiant in thy strength.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:2 - (LXX 2:3) For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:3 - (LXX 2:4) They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:4 - (LXX 2:5) in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:5 - (LXX 2:6) And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defences.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:6 - (LXX 2:7) The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:7 - (LXX 2:8) and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid-servants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:8 - (LXX 2:9) And as for Nineve, her waters shall be as a pool of water: and they fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:9 - (LXX 2:10) They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10 - (LXX 2:11) There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:11 - (LXX 2:12) Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion's whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away?
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:12 - (LXX 2:13) The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:13 - (LXX 2:14) Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at all be heard of.
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Translation of the Greek Septuagint into English by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton, originally published in 1851 and is now in the Public Domain

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