2:1 It is all over with him, he has been
removed, [one] who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting
into thy presence, watch the way, strengthen [thy] loins, be very valiant in
[thy] strength.
2:2 For Yehovah has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of
Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their
branches.
2:3 [They have destroyed] the arms of their power from among men, their
mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots [shall be
destroyed] in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown
into confusion
2:4 in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be
entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of
fire, and as gleaming lightnings.
2:5 And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they
shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall
prepare their defences.
2:6 The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen
into ruin,
2:7 and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her
maid-servants were led [away] as doves moaning in their hearts.
2:8 And [as for] Nineve, her waters [shall be] as a pool of water: and they
fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back.
2:9 They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end
of their adorning; they were loaded [with it] upon all their pleasant
vessels.
2:10 [There is] thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and
heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces
of all [are] as the blackening of a pot.
2:11 Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged
to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion's whelp should enter in
there, and there was none to scare [him] away?
2:12 The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his
[young] lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with
spoil.
2:13 Behold, I am against thee, saith Yehovah Almighty, and I will burn up
thy multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy lions; and I will
utterly destroy thy prey from off the land, and thy deeds shall no more at
all be heard of. |
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 Yehovah 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 Yehovah 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. |