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| The Book of Nahum 2 |
| The Young's Literal Translation Online Bible (YLT) |
| Nahum 2:1 | Come up hath a scatterer to thy face, Keep the bulwark, watch the way, Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily. |
| Nahum 2:2 | For turned back hath Jehovah to the excellency of Jacob, As [to] the excellency of Israel, For emptied them out have emptiers, And their branches they have marred. |
| Nahum 2:3 | The shield of his mighty ones is become red, Men of might [are in] scarlet, With fiery torches [is] the chariot in a day of his preparation, And the firs have been caused to tremble. |
| Nahum 2:4 | In out-places shine do the chariots, They go to and fro in broad places, Their appearances [are] like torches, As lightnings they run. |
| Nahum 2:5 | He doth remember his honourable ones, They stumble in their goings, They hasten [to] its wall, and prepared is the covering. |
| Nahum 2:6 | Gates of the rivers have been opened, And the palace is dissolved. |
| Nahum 2:7 | And it is established she hath removed, She hath been brought up, And her handmaids are leading as the voice of doves, Tabering on their hearts. |
| Nahum 2:8 | And Nineveh [is] as a pool of waters, From of old it [is] and they are fleeing! `Stand ye, stand;` and none is turning! |
| Nahum 2:9 | Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, [To] the abundance of all desirable vessels. |
| Nahum 2:10 | She is empty, yea, emptiness and waste, And the heart hath melted, And the knees have smitten together, And great pain [is] in all loins, And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness. |
| Nahum 2:11 | Where [is] the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it [is] for young lions Where walked hath a lion, an old lion, A lion`s whelp, and there is none troubling. |
| Nahum 2:12 | The lion is tearing parts [for] his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill [with] prey his holes, And his habitations [with] rapine. |
| Nahum 2:13 | Lo, I [am] against thee, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I have burned in smoke its chariot, And thy young lions consume doth a sword, And I have cut off from the land thy prey, And not heard any more is the voice of thy messengers! |
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