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The Overthrow of Nineveh
Man the fortress, watch the road;
3Lit Make strong your loinsStrengthen your back, 4Lit strengthen power greatlysummon all your strength.
2 For the Loʀᴅ will restore the AIs 60:15splendor of Jacob
BEzek 37:21-23Like the splendor of Israel,
Even though devastators have devastated them
And CPs 80:12, 13destroyed their vine branches.
The warriors are dressed in AEzek 23:14, 15scarlet,
The chariots are enveloped in 2Lit fire of steelflashing steel
3Lit On the day of his preparationWhen he is prepared to march,
And the cypress BJob 39:23spears are brandished.
4 The AIs 66:15; Jer 4:13; Ezek 26:10; Nah 3:2, 3chariots race madly in the streets,
They rush wildly in the 1Lit broad placessquares,
Their appearance is like torches,
They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.
5 He remembers his ANah 3:18nobles;
They BJer 46:12stumble in their march,
They hurry to her wall,
And the 1Lit covering used in a siegemantelet is set up.
6 The gates of the rivers are opened
And the palace is dissolved.
7 It is fixed:
She is stripped, she is carried away,
And her handmaids are AIs 38:14; 59:11moaning like the sound of doves,
BIs 32:12Beating on their 1Lit heartsbreasts.
8 Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days,
Now they are fleeing;
“Stop, stop,”
But AJer 46:5; 47:3no one turns back.
9 Plunder the silver!
Plunder the ARev 18:12, 16gold!
For there is no limit to the treasure—
Wealth from every kind of desirable object.
10 She is AIs 24:1; 34:10-13; Nah 2:2emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
BPs 22:14; Is 13:7, 8; Ezek 21:7Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in 1Lit all the lointhe whole body
And all their CJoel 2:6faces are grown pale!
11 Where is the den of the lions
And the feeding place of the AIs 5:29young lions,
Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled,
With nothing to disturb them?
12 The lion tore enough for his cubs,
1Lit StrangledKilled enough for his lionesses,
And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh.
13 “Behold, AJer 21:13; Ezek 5:8; Nah 3:5I am against you,” declares the Loʀᴅ of hosts. “I will BJosh 11:6, 9; Ps 46:9burn up her chariots in smoke, a sword will devour your young lions; I will CIs 49:24, 25; Nah 3:1cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard.”
12:1 Ch 2:2 in Heb
22:1 Lit your face
32:1 Lit Make strong your loins
42:1 Lit strengthen power greatly
12:3 I.e. those attacking Nineveh
A2:3 Ezek 23:14, 15
22:3 Lit fire of steel
32:3 Lit On the day of his preparation
A2:4 Is 66:15; Jer 4:13; Ezek 26:10; Nah 3:2, 3
12:4 Lit broad places
12:5 Lit covering used in a siege
12:7 Lit hearts
A2:9 Rev 18:12, 16
A2:10 Is 24:1; 34:10-13; Nah 2:2
B2:10 Ps 22:14; Is 13:7, 8; Ezek 21:7
12:10 Lit all the loin
12:12 Lit Strangled
A2:13 Jer 21:13; Ezek 5:8; Nah 3:5
B2:13 Josh 11:6, 9; Ps 46:9