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          DASV: Nahum 2

1 One scattering to pieces is coming against you, Nineveh.
      Guard the fortress.
           Watch the road.
                Prepare for battle.
                     Gather your strength.
2 For the LORD will restore the majesty of Jacob,
     according to the original majesty of Israel;
      for plunderers have plundered them,
     and destroyed their branches.

3 The shield of his mighty men are red,
     the valiant are clothed in scarlet,
     the chariots flash with metal on the day they are prepared,
     and their spears are brandished.
4 Chariots race through the streets;
          they rush to and fro through the squares.
      They appear like flaming torches,
          they bolt around like lightning.
5 He calls for his officers.
           They stumble in their charge.
      They rush to its wall,
           and the siege tower is set up.
6 The river gates are opened,
      and the palace melts away.
7 It is decreed that she will be exiled, carried away;
      her slave girls moan like doves
           as they beat their breasts.
8 But Nineveh is like a pool of water draining away,
      "Stop, stop," they cry,
      but no one turns back.
9 Plunder the silver,
           plunder the gold.
      There is no end of the treasure,
          wealth of every kind.
10 She is wasted, emptied, and devastated;
     hearts melt and knees shake,
      shaken to the core,
      with all the faces turning pale.
11 Where is the den of the lions,
     and the feeding place of the young lions,
      where the lion and the lioness walk,
     even the lion's cub,
      and no one makes them afraid?
12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs,
     and strangled prey for his lionesses,
      and filled his caves with prey,
     and his dens with torn flesh.

13 "I am against you," declares the LORD of hosts,
      "I will burn her chariots in the smoke,
     and the sword will devour your young lions.
           I will cut off your prey from the earth,
     and the voice of your messengers will be heard no more."
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