Nahum:2

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* He who dashes in pieces has come up against thee . Keep the fortress . Watch the way . Make thy loins strong . Fortify thy power mightily . * For LORD restores the excellency of Jacob , as the excellency of Israel , for the emptiers have emptied them out , and destroyed their vine-branches . * The shield of his mighty men is made red . The valiant men are in scarlet . The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation , and the cypress [spears ] are brandished . * The chariots rage in the streets ; they rush to and fro in the broad ways . The appearance of them is like torches . They run like the lightnings . * He remembers his nobles . They stumble in their march . They make haste to the wall of it , and the mantelet is prepared . * The gates of the rivers are opened , and the palace is dissolved . * And it is decreed . She is uncovered . She is carried away , and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves , beating upon their breasts . * But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water . Yet they flee away . Stand , stand , [they cry ], but none looks back . * Take ye the spoil of silver . Take the spoil of gold . For there is no end of the store , the glory of all goodly furniture . * She is empty , and void , and waste . And the heart melts , and the knees smite together , and anguish is in all loins , and the faces of them all have grown pale . * Where is the den of the lions , and the feeding-place of the young lions , where the lion [and ] the lioness walked , the lion 's whelp , and none made them afraid ? * The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps , and strangled for his lionesses , and filled his caves with prey , and his dens with prey . * Behold , I am against thee , says LORD 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 hear

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