Nahum 2

The Destruction of the Wicked City

1 # Jer 51.20–23; Nah 3.12, 14 A scatterer has come up against you.

Guard the ramparts;

watch the road;

gird your loins;

collect all your strength.

2 # Isa 60.15; Ezek 37.21–23 (For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob,

as well as the majesty of Israel,

though ravagers have ravaged them

and ruined their branches.)

3 # Job 39.23; Ezek 23.14, 15 The shields of his warriors are red;

his soldiers are clothed in crimson.

The metal on the chariots flashes

on the day when he musters them;

the chargers#2.3 Cn Compare Gk Syr: Heb cypresses prance.

4 # Jer 4.13; Ezek 26.10 The chariots race madly through the streets;

they rush to and fro through the squares;

their appearance is like torches;

they dart like lightning.

5He calls his officers;

they stumble as they come forward;

they hasten to the wall,

and the screen#2.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain is set up.

6The river gates are opened;

the palace trembles.

7 # Isa 59.11 It is decreed#2.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain that the city#2.7 Heb it be exiled,

its slave women led away,

moaning like doves

and beating their breasts.

8 # Jer 46.5; 47.3; Nah 3.7 Nineveh is like a pool

whose waters#2.8 Cn Compare Gk: Heb a pool, from the days that she has become, and they run away.

“Halt! Halt!”—

but no one turns back.

9“Plunder the silver;

plunder the gold!

There is no end of treasure!

An abundance of every precious thing!”

10 # Ps 22.14; Isa 13.7, 8; Joel 2.6 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!

Hearts faint and knees tremble;

all loins quake;

all faces grow pale!

11 # Isa 5.29; Jer 4.7; Nah 3.1 What became of the lions’ den,

the cave of the young lions,

where the lion goes,

and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?

12 # Isa 10.6–14; Jer 51.34 The lion has torn enough for his whelps

and strangled prey for his lionesses;

he has filled his caves with prey

and his dens with torn flesh.

13 # Ps 46.9; Isa 49.24, 25; Nah 3.5 See, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your#2.13 Heb her 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 be heard no more.

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