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The Overthrow of Nineveh
He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.
For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
Even though the destroyer has destroyed Judah,
the LORD will restore its honor.
Israel’s vine has been stripped of branches,
but he will restore its splendor.
the LORD will restore its honor.
Israel’s vine has been stripped of branches,
but he will restore its splendor.
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
The chariots race recklessly along the streets
and rush wildly through the squares.
They flash like firelight
and move as swiftly as lightning.
and rush wildly through the squares.
They flash like firelight
and move as swiftly as lightning.
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
The king shouts to his officers;
they stumble in their haste,
rushing to the walls to set up their defenses.
they stumble in their haste,
rushing to the walls to set up their defenses.
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
The river gates have been torn open!
The palace is about to collapse!
The palace is about to collapse!
And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
Nineveh’s exile has been decreed,
and all the servant girls mourn its capture.
They moan like doves
and beat their breasts in sorrow.
and all the servant girls mourn its capture.
They moan like doves
and beat their breasts in sorrow.
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.
Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir!
The people are slipping away.
“Stop, stop!” someone shouts,
but no one even looks back.
The people are slipping away.
“Stop, stop!” someone shouts,
but no one even looks back.
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
Loot the silver!
Plunder the gold!
There’s no end to Nineveh’s treasures —
its vast, uncounted wealth.
Plunder the gold!
There’s no end to Nineveh’s treasures —
its vast, uncounted wealth.
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined.
Hearts melt and knees shake.
The people stand aghast,
their faces pale and trembling.
Hearts melt and knees shake.
The people stand aghast,
their faces pale and trembling.
Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
Where now is that great Nineveh,
that den filled with young lions?
It was a place where people — like lions and their cubs —
walked freely and without fear.
that den filled with young lions?
It was a place where people — like lions and their cubs —
walked freely and without fear.
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
The lion tore up meat for his cubs
and strangled prey for his mate.
He filled his den with prey,
his caverns with his plunder.
and strangled prey for his mate.
He filled his den with prey,
his caverns with his plunder.
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.