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The Destruction of Nineveh
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|Naum 2:1|a The scatterer has come up against you. bMan the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; 1 collect all your strength.
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|Naum 2:2|For cthe LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and druined their branches.
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|Naum 2:3|The shield of his mighty men is red; ehis soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished.
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|Naum 2:4|f The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning.
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|Naum 2:5|He remembers ghis officers; hthey stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower 2 is set up.
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|Naum 2:6|i The river gates are opened; the palace jmelts away;
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|Naum 2:7|its mistress 3 is kstripped; 4 she is carried off, her slave girls llamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
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|Naum 2:8|m Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. 5 “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but nnone turns back.
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|Naum 2:9|Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things.
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|Naum 2:10|o Desolate! Desolation and ruin! pHearts melt and qknees tremble; ranguish is in all loins; sall faces grow pale!
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