Open Bible Data Home About News OET Key
OET OET-RV ULT UST BSB OEB WEB NET TCNT T4T LEB RV KJB Related Parallel Interlinear Dictionary Search
ULT By Document By Section By Chapter Details
ULT FRT GEN EXO LEV NUM DEU JOS JDG RUTH 1SA 2SA 1KI 2KI 1CH 2CH EZRA NEH EST JOB PSA PRO ECC SNG ISA JER LAM EZE DAN HOS JOEL AMOS OBA YNA MIC NAH HAB ZEP HAG ZEC MAL MAT MARK LUKE YHN ACTs ROM 1COR 2COR GAL EPH PHP COL 1TH 2TH 1TIM 2TIM TIT PHM HEB YAC 1PET 2PET 1YHN 2YHN 3YHN YUD REV
2 The one who will scatter you is coming up against you.
Guard the city walls, watch the roads,
gird your loins, marshal all your strength.
2 For Yahweh is restoring the majesty of Jacob, like the majesty of Israel,
although the plunderers devastated them and destroyed their vine branches.
3 The shields of his mighty men are red, and the soldiers are clothed in scarlet;
the chariots flash with their metal on the day that they are made ready, and the cypress spears are brandished.
4 The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the squares.
They look like torches, and they run like lightning.
5 The invader calls his officers; they stumble in their marching;
they hurry to attack the city wall. The large shield used in a siege is made ready to protect these attackers.
6 The gates at the rivers are forced open, and the palace melts away.
7 It is decreed: she is stripped of her clothes and is taken away;
her female servants moan like doves, beating on their breasts.
8 Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, now its people are fleeing away like rushing water.
Others shout, “Stop, stop,” but no one turns back.
9 Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to the supply,
wealth from all Nineveh’s desirable things.
10 Nineveh is empty, desolate and ruined. Everyone’s heart melts, everyone’s knees strike together,
and anguish is in all loins; all their faces grow pale.
11 Where now is the lions’ den, the place where the young lion cubs were fed,
the place where the lion and lioness walked, where the cubs of the lion were, where they were afraid of nothing?
12 The lion tore enough for his cubs; he strangled victims for his lionesses,
and filled his cave with prey, his dens with torn carcasses.
13 “See, I am against you—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
I will burn your chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions.
I will cut off your prey from your land, and the voices of your messengers will be heard no more.”