Jubilee2000 - Nahum - 2

2:1  The destroyer is risen up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make [thy] loins strong, fortify [thy] power mightily.

2:2  For the LORD shall restore the glory of Jacob as the glory of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out and marred their vine branches.

2:3  The shield of his valiant ones shall be red, the men of [his] army [are] in scarlet, the chariot [as] fire of torches [in] the day which shall be made ready; the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

2:4  The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall flow through the streets, their faces like torches; they shall run like the lightnings.

2:5  He shall remember his valiant ones; they shall stumble in their walk when they make haste to their wall, and the covering shall be prepared.

2:6  The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be destroyed.

2:7  And the queen shall be taken captive; they shall order her to go up, and her maids shall take [her], mourning as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

2:8  And Nineveh was of old like a pool of water; but [now] they flee away. Stand, stand, [shall they cry]; but no one looks [back].

2:9  Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold, for [there is] no end of the riches; honour, more than all the desirable furniture.

2:10  She is empty and worn out and is in pieces, and the heart melted, the knees smite together, and much pain [is] in the kidneys, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

2:11  What of the dwelling of the lions and of the feeding place of the young lions where the lion and the lioness walked [and] the lion's whelps, and no one made [them] afraid?

2:12  The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled for his lionesses and filled his holes with prey and his dens with robbery.

2:13  Behold, I [speak] unto thee, saith the LORD of the hosts, and I will burn and [reduce] thy chariots into smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy robbery from the earth, and the voice of thy ambassadors shall never be heard again.: