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Nahum
Chapter 02
{Nineveh
will fall}
1
He who dashes in pieces
is
come up before your face.
Keep the stronghold/rampart.
Watch the way.
Make your loins strong.
Fortify your power mightily.
2
For Jehovah/God has turned away the excellency of Jacob,
as
the excellency of Israel.
For
'those laying waste'
have
wasted them . . .
and
marred their vine branches.
3
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.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets,
they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways.
They shall seem like torches.
They shall run like the 'bolts of lightning'.
5 He shall recount his worthies.
They shall stumble in their walk.
They
shall make haste to the wall thereof,
and
the defense shall be prepared.
6
The gates of the rivers shall be opened,
and
the palace shall be dissolved.
7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive.
She
shall be brought up,
and
her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves,
'beating
intensively' upon their breasts.
8 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.
9
Take to yourself the spoil of silver,
take
the spoil of gold.
For
there is no end of the store
and
glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10 She is empty, and void, and waste.
And
the heart/'right lobe'/thinking melts {fear and cowardness},
and
the knees smite together {knocking knees},
and
much pain is in all loins,
and
the faces of them all gather blackness.
{None
found Courageous Like Lions}
11
Where is the dwelling of the lions,
and
the feeding-place of the young lions . . .
where
the lion,
even
the old lion,
walked,
and
the lion's whelp,
and
none made them afraid?
12
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 'torn flesh'/ravin.
13
"Behold, I am against you,"
said
Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
"and
I will burn her chariots in the smoke,
and
the sword shall devour your young lions.
And
I will cut off your prey from the earth,
and
the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard."
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