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Nahum, Chapter 2

¹ ^a Ch 2:2 in HebThe one who scatters has come up against^b Lit your faceyou. Man the fortress, watch the road; ^c Lit Make strong your loinsStrengthen your back,^d Lit strengthen power greatlysummon all your strength.	1 Jer 51:20-23
² For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob Like the splendor of Israel, Even though devastators have devastated them And destroyed their vine branches.	2 Isa 60:15 Eze 37:21-23 Psa 80:12 Psa 80:13
³ The shields of^e I.e. those attacking Ninevehhis mighty men are colored red, The warriors are dressed in scarlet, The chariots are enveloped in^f Lit fire of steelflashing steel ^g Lit On the day of his preparationWhen he is prepared to march, And the cypress spears are brandished.	3 Eze 23:14 Eze 23:15 Job 39:23
⁴ The chariots race madly in the streets, They rush wildly in the^h Lit broad placessquares, Their appearance is like torches, They dash to and fro like lightning flashes.	4 Isa 66:15 Jer 4:13 Eze 26:10 Nah 3:2 Nah 3:3
⁵ He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And theⁱ Lit covering used in a siegemantelet is set up.	5 Nah 3:18 Jer 46:12
⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened And the palace is dissolved.
⁷ It is fixed: She is stripped, she is carried away, And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves, Beating on their^j Lit heartsbreasts.	7 Isa 38:14 Isa 59:11 Isa 32:12
⁸ Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now they are fleeing; “Stop, stop,” But no one turns back.	8 Jer 46:5 Jer 47:3
⁹ Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure— Wealth from every kind of desirable object.	9 Rev 18:12 Rev 18:16
¹⁰ She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in^k Lit all the lointhe whole body And all their faces are grown pale!	10 Isa 24:1 Isa 34:10-13 Nah 2:2 Psa 22:14 Isa 13:7 Isa 13:8 Eze 21:7 Joe 2:6
¹¹ Where is the den of the lions And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled, With nothing to disturb them?	11 Isa 5:29
¹² The lion tore enough for his cubs, ^l Lit StrangledKilled enough for his lionesses, And filled his lairs with prey And his dens with torn flesh.
¹³ “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of hosts. “I will burn up her chariots in smoke, a sword will devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard.”	13 Jer 21:13 Eze 5:8 Nah 3:5 Jos 11:6 Jos 11:9 Psa 46:9 Isa 49:24 Isa 49:25 Nah 3:1


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