| Nahum 2:1 |
He who scatters has come up before you: / Keep the fortress, / Watch the way, / Strengthen the loins, / Fortify the power greatly. |
| Nahum 2:2 |
For Jehovah restores / The excellency of Jacob / As the excellency of Israel; / For the emptiers have emptied them out / And destroyed their vine branches. |
| Nahum 2:3 |
The shield of His mighty men is red; / The valiant men are clad in scarlet; / The chariots [flash] with the shining of steel / In the day of His preparation, / And the spears are brandished. |
| Nahum 2:4 |
In the streets the chariots rush madly; / They dash to and fro in the open squares; / Their appearance is like that of torches; / They dart like lightning. |
| Nahum 2:5 |
The Assyrian king remembers his glorious ones: / They stumble in their march; / They hasten to the wall of the city, / But the [besiegers'] shelter is prepared. |
| Nahum 2:6 |
The gates of the rivers are opened, / And the palace is dissolved. |
| Nahum 2:7 |
And it is determined: She is uncovered; she is carried away; / And her maidens moan, / As with the sound of doves, / Beating their breasts. |
| Nahum 2:8 |
Though Nineveh has been like a pool of water all her days, / [Now] they are fleeing. / Stand! Stand! But no one turns back. |
| Nahum 2:9 |
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! / And there is no end to what has been prepared. / Oh, the glory of all the desirable vessels! |
| Nahum 2:10 |
Emptiness and void and waste! / And the heart melts, and the knees knock, / And anguish is in all the loins, / And the faces of all of them become pale. |
| Nahum 2:11 |
Where is the den of lions / And the feeding place of young lions, / Where the lion [and] the lioness walked, / [And] the lion's whelp; and no one frightened them? |
| Nahum 2:12 |
The lion tore in pieces, enough for his whelps, / And strangled for his lioness / And filled his caves with torn prey / And his dens with torn animals. |
| Nahum 2:13 |
Indeed I am against you, / Declares Jehovah of hosts; / And I will burn your chariots in smoke, / And the sword will devour your young lions; / And I will cut off your prey from the earth; / And the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard. |