| 章 |
| 2:1 |
The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts;watch the road;gird your loins;collect all your strength.
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| 2:2 |
(For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)
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| 2:3 |
The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array;the chargers prance.
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| 2:4 |
The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares;they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.
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| 2:5 |
The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.
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| 2:6 |
The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;
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| 2:7 |
its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.
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| 2:8 |
Nin'eveh is like a pool whose waters run away. 'Halt! Halt!' they cry;but none turns back.
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| 2:9 |
Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.
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| 2:10 |
Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
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| 2:11 |
Where is the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
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| 2:12 |
The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses;he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
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| 2:13 |
Behold, I am against you, says the LORD of hosts, and I will burn 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 no more be heard.
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