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Nahum 2 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 2
The Destruction of Nineveh
The Destruction of Nineveh
1 He who scatters[fn] has come up before your face. Man the fort!
​​Watch the road!
​​Strengthen your flanks!
​​Fortify your power mightily.
​
2 ​​For the LORD will restore the excellence of Jacob
​​Like the excellence of Israel,
​​For the emptiers have emptied them out
​​And ruined their vine branches.
​
3 ​​The shields of his mighty men are made red,
​​The valiant men are in scarlet.
​​The chariots come with flaming torches
​​In the day of his preparation,
​​And the spears are brandished.[fn]
4 ​​The chariots rage in the streets,
​​They jostle one another in the broad roads;
​​They seem like torches,
​​They run like lightning.
​
5 ​​He remembers his nobles;
​​They stumble in their walk;
​​They make haste to her walls,
​​And the defense is prepared.
6 ​​The gates of the rivers are opened,
​​And the palace is dissolved.
7 ​​It is decreed:[fn]
​​She shall be led away captive,
​​She shall be brought up;
​​And her maidservants shall lead her as with the voice of doves,
​​Beating their breasts.
​
8 ​​Though Nineveh of old was like a pool of water,
​​Now they flee away.
​​“Halt! Halt!” they cry;
​​But no one turns back.
9 ​​Take spoil of silver!
​​Take spoil of gold!
​​There is no end of treasure,
​​Or wealth of every desirable prize.
10 ​​She is empty, desolate, and waste!
​​The heart melts, and the knees shake;
​​Much pain is in every side,
​​And all their faces are drained of color.[fn]
​
11 ​​Where is the dwelling of the lions,
​​And the feeding place of the young lions,
​​Where the lion walked, the lioness and lion’s cub,
​​And no one made them afraid?
12 ​​The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs,
​​Killed for his lionesses,
​​Filled his caves with prey,
​​And his dens with flesh.
​
13 “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts, “I will burn your[fn] 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 be heard no more.”
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NKJV Footnotes
Vulgate reads He who destroys.
Literally the cypresses are shaken; Septuagint and Syriac read the horses rush about; Vulgate reads the drivers are stupefied.
Hebrew Huzzab
Compare Joel 2:6
Literally her
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