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Israel;</div><div class="po2">For the emptiers have emptied them out,</div><div class="po2">And marred their vine-branches.—</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-3.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The shield of his mighty men is made red,</div><div class="po2">The valiant men are in scarlet;</div><div class="po2">The chariots are fire of steel in the day of his preparation,</div><div class="po2">And the cypress spears are made to quiver.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-4.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The chariots rush madly in the streets,</div><div class="po2">They jostle one against another in the broad places;</div><div class="po2">The appearance of them is like torches,</div><div class="po2">They run to and fro like the lightnings.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-5.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>He bethinketh himself of his worthies;</div><div class="po2">They stumble in their march;</div><div class="po2">They make haste to the wall thereof,</div><div class="po2">And the mantelet is prepared.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-6.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The gates of the rivers are opened,</div><div class="po2">And the palace is dissolved.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-7.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And the queen is uncovered, she is carried away,</div><div class="po2">And her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves,</div><div class="po2">Tabering upon their breasts.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-8.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water;</div><div class="po2">Yet they flee away;</div><div class="po2">‘Stand, stand’;</div><div class="po2">But none looketh back.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-9.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold;</div><div class="po2">For there is no end of the store,</div><div class="po2">Rich with all precious vessels.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-10.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>She is empty, and void, and waste;</div><div class="po2">And the heart melteth, and the knees smite together,</div><div class="po2">And convulsion is in all loins,</div><div class="po2">And the faces of them all have gathered blackness.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-11.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Where is the den of the lions,</div><div class="po2">Which was the feeding-place of the young lions,</div><div class="po2">Where the lion and the lioness walked, and the lion’s whelp,</div><div class="po2">And none made them afraid?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-12.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps,</div><div class="po2">And strangled for his lionesses,</div><div class="po2">And filled his caves with prey,</div><div class="po2">And his dens with ravin.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/2-13.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts,</div><div class="po2">And I will burn her chariots in the smoke,</div><div class="po2">And the sword shall devour thy young lions;</div><div class="po2">And I will cut off thy prey from the earth,</div><div class="po2">And the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nahum/1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nahum 1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nahum 1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a 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