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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.”