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Nineveh to Fall
2:1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy
face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins
strong, fortify thy power mightily.
2:2 For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob,
as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied
them out, and marred their vine branches.
2:3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant
men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming
torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees
shall be terribly shaken.
2:4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall
justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall
seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
2:5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in
their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and
the defence shall be prepared.
2:6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace
shall be dissolved.
2:7 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be
brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice
of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
2:8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they
shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none
shall look back.
2:9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold:
for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the
pleasant furniture.
2:10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart
melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in
all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.
2:11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the
feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the
old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them
afraid?
2:12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and
strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
and his dens with ravin.
2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts,
and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword
shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey
from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no
more be heard. |
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