Nahum 2 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

The Destruction of Nineveh

Nah 2:1The scatterer has come up against you.
Man the ramparts;
watch the road;
dress for battle;[fn]
collect all your strength.

Nah 2:2

Nah 2:2For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob
as the majesty of Israel,
for plunderers have plundered them
and ruined their branches.

Nah 2:3

Nah 2:3The shield of his mighty men is red;
his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.
The chariots come with flashing metal
on the day he musters them;
the cypress spears are brandished.

Nah 2:4

Nah 2:4The chariots race madly through the streets;
they rush to and fro through the squares;
they gleam like torches;
they dart like lightning.

Nah 2:5

Nah 2:5He remembers his officers;
they stumble as they go,
they hasten to the wall;
the siege tower[fn] is set up.

Nah 2:6

Nah 2:6The river gates are opened;
the palace melts away;

Nah 2:7

Nah 2:7its mistress[fn] is stripped;[fn] she is carried off,
her slave girls lamenting,
moaning like doves
and beating their breasts.

Nah 2:8

Nah 2:8Nineveh is like a pool
whose waters run away.[fn]
“Halt! Halt!” they cry,
but none turns back.

Nah 2:9

Nah 2:9Plunder the silver,
plunder the gold!
There is no end of the treasure
or of the wealth of all precious things.

Nah 2:10

Nah 2:10Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
Hearts melt and knees tremble;
anguish is in all loins;
all faces grow pale!

Nah 2:11

Nah 2:11Where is the lions’ den,
the feeding place of the young lions,
where the lion and lioness went,
where his cubs were, with none to disturb?

Nah 2:12

Nah 2:12The lion tore enough for his cubs
and strangled prey for his lionesses;
he filled his caves with prey
and his dens with torn flesh.

Nah 2:13

Nah 2:13Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and 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 no longer be heard.

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ESV Footnotes

(2:1)

Hebrew gird your loins

(2:5)

Or the mantelet

(2:7)

The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain

(2:7)

Or exiled

(2:8)

Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

(2:13)

Hebrew her

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The Destruction of Nineveh

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