LSV NAH Chapter 2

2 A scatterer has come up to your face,
Keep the bulwark, watch the way,
Strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily. 2 For YHWH has turned back to the excellence of Jacob,
As [to] the excellence of Israel,
For emptiers have emptied them out,
And they have marred their branches. 3 The shield of his mighty ones has 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. 4 In out-places the chariots shine,
They go to and fro in broad places,
Their appearances [are] like torches,
As lightnings they run. 5 He remembers his majestic ones,
They stumble in their goings,
They hurry [to] its wall,
And the covering is prepared. 6 Gates of the rivers have been opened,
And the palace is dissolved. 7 And it is established—she has removed,
She has been brought up,
And her handmaids are leading as the voice of doves,
Tabering on their hearts. 8 And Nineveh [is] as a pool of waters,
From of old it [is]—and they are fleeing! “Stand, stand”; and none is turning! 9 Seize silver, seize gold,
And there is no end to the prepared things,
[To] the abundance of all desirable vessels. 10 She is empty, indeed, emptiness and waste,
And the heart has melted,
And the knees have struck together,
And great pain [is] in all loins,
And the faces of all of them have gathered paleness. 11 Where [is] the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it [is] for young lions
Where a lion has walked, an old lion,
A lion’s whelp, and there is none troubling. 12 The lion is tearing parts [for] his whelps,
And is strangling for his lionesses,
And he fills his holes [with] prey,
And his habitations [with] torn flesh. 13 “Behold, I [am] against you,”
A declaration of YHWH of Hosts,
“And I have burned its chariot in smoke,
And a sword consumes your young lions,
And I have cut off your prey from the land,
And the voice of your messengers is not heard anymore!”

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