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Nahum Chapter 2 (NIV 11)

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¹ [4]An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!

² The LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.

³ The shields of the soldiers are red; the warriors are clad in scarlet. The metal on the chariots flashes on the day they are made ready; the spears of juniper are brandished.[5]

⁴ The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.

⁵ Nineveh summons her picked troops, yet they stumble on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in place.

⁶ The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.

⁷ It is decreed[6] that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.

⁸ Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.

⁹ Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!

¹⁰ She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.

¹¹ Where now is the lions’ den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear?

¹² The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.

¹³ “I am against you,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

#	NIV 11
1	[4]An attacker advances against you, Nineveh. Guard the fortress, watch the road, brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!
2	The LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel, though destroyers have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
3	The shields of the soldiers are red; the warriors are clad in scarlet. The metal on the chariots flashes on the day they are made ready; the spears of juniper are brandished.[5]
4	The chariots storm through the streets, rushing back and forth through the squares. They look like flaming torches; they dart about like lightning.
5	Nineveh summons her picked troops, yet they stumble on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in place.
6	The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
7	It is decreed[6] that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.
8	Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
9	Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!
10	She is pillaged, plundered, stripped! Hearts melt, knees give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.
11	Where now is the lions’ den, the place where they fed their young, where the lion and lioness went, and the cubs, with nothing to fear?
12	The lion killed enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate, filling his lairs with the kill and his dens with the prey.
13	“I am against you,” declares the LORD Almighty. “I will burn up your chariots in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will leave you no prey on the earth. The voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

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^{Nahum 2:1 [21]} Lit dreamed dreams

^{Nahum 2:1 [22]} Lit was gone upon him

^{Nahum 2:2 [23]} Lit said to call

^{Nahum 2:2 [24]} Probably master astrologers, diviners, etc., and so throughout the ch

^{Nahum 2:2 [25]} Lit explain to

^{Nahum 2:3 [26]} Lit dreamed

^{Nahum 2:3 [27]} Lit was troubled

^{Nahum 2:3 [28]} Lit know

^{Nahum 2:4 [29]} The text is in Aramaic from here through 7:28

^{Nahum 2:5 [30]} Another reading is is issued by me

^{Nahum 2:5 [31]} Lit turned into limbs

^{Nahum 2:8 [32]} See note 1 v 5

^{Nahum 2:9 [33]} Or verdict

^{Nahum 2:9 [34]} Lit word

^{Nahum 2:9 [35]} Lit time

^{Nahum 2:10 [36]} Lit before the

^{Nahum 2:10 [37]} Lit of

^{Nahum 2:11 [38]} Lit before

^{Nahum 2:13 [39]} Or law

^{Nahum 2:13 [40]} Lit be killed

^{Nahum 2:14 [41]} Or executioners

^{Nahum 2:21 [42]} Lit knowers of

^{Nahum 2:24 [43]} Lit in before the king

^{Nahum 2:25 [44]} Lit in before the king

^{Nahum 2:25 [45]} Lit sons of the exile of

^{Nahum 2:28 [46]} Lit end of the days

^{Nahum 2:28 [47]} Lit of your head

^{Nahum 2:29 [48]} Lit came up

^{Nahum 2:29 [49]} Lit after this

^{Nahum 2:30 [50]} Or through

^{Nahum 2:30 [51]} Lit which is

^{Nahum 2:30 [52]} Lit heart

^{Nahum 2:31 [53]} Lit its radiance was extraordinary

^{Nahum 2:31 [54]} Or dreadful

^{Nahum 2:34 [55]} Lit were

^{Nahum 2:35 [56]} Lit as one

^{Nahum 2:37 [57]} Or sovereignty

^{Nahum 2:41 [58]} Lit wet clay

^{Nahum 2:43 [59]} Lit wet clay

^{Nahum 2:43 [60]} Or with

^{Nahum 2:43 [61]} Lit the seed of men

^{Nahum 2:44 [62]} Or passed on to

^{Nahum 2:45 [63]} Lit after this

^{Nahum 2:48 [64]} Lit made Daniel great

^{Nahum 2:48 [65]} Lit of the prefects

^{Nahum 2:49 [66]} Lit gate

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