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  • The Destruction of Nineveh

    He[a] who scatters has come up before your face.
    Man the fort!
    Watch the road!
    Strengthen your flanks!
    Fortify your power mightily.
  • The Destruction of Nineveh

    The scatterer has come up against you.
    Man the ramparts;
    watch the road;
    dress for battle;a
    collect all your strength.
  • 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.
  • For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob
    as the majesty of Israel,
    for plunderers have plundered them
    and ruined their branches.
  • 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 [b]the spears are brandished.
  • The 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.
  • The chariots rage in the streets,
    They jostle one another in the broad roads;
    They seem like torches,
    They run like lightning.
  • The chariots race madly through the streets;
    they rush to and fro through the squares;
    they gleam like torches;
    they dart like lightning.
  • He remembers his nobles;
    They stumble in their walk;
    They make haste to her walls,
    And the defense is prepared.
  • He remembers his officers;
    they stumble as they go,
    they hasten to the wall;
    the siege towerb is set up.
  • The gates of the rivers are opened,
    And the palace is dissolved.
  • The river gates are opened;
    the palace melts away;
  • [c]It is decreed:
    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.
  • its mistressc is stripped;d she is carried off,
    her slave girls lamenting,
    moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.
  • Though Nineveh of old was like a pool of water,
    Now they flee away.
    [d]“Halt! Halt!” they cry;
    But no one turns back.
  • Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters run away.e
    “Halt! Halt!” they cry,
    but none turns back.
  • [e]Take spoil of silver!
    Take spoil of gold!
    There is no end of treasure,
    Or wealth of every desirable prize.
  • Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
    There is no end of the treasure
    or of the wealth of all precious things.
  • She is empty, desolate, and waste!
    The heart melts, and the knees shake;
    Much pain is in every side,
    And all their faces [f]are drained of color.
  • Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
    Hearts melt and knees tremble;
    anguish is in all loins;
    all faces grow pale!
  • 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?
  • Where 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?
  • The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs,
    [g]Killed for his lionesses,
    Filled his caves with prey,
    And his dens with [h]flesh.
  • The lion tore enough for his cubs
    and strangled prey for his lionesses;
    he filled his caves with prey
    and his dens with torn flesh.
  • “Behold, I am against you,” says the Lord of hosts, “I will burn [i]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 be heard no more.”
  • Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and I will burn yourf 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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