Nahum 2

Attack against Nineveh

1One who scatters is coming up against you. # 2:1 Ezk 29:12–13; 30:23,26

Man the fortifications!

Watch the road!

Brace # 2:1 Lit Strengthen yourself!

Summon all your strength! # 2:1 Pr 24:5; Am 2:14

2For the Lord will restore the majesty of Jacob, # 2:2 Ps 47:4; Am 6:8; 8:7

yes, # 2:2 Or like the majesty of Israel,

though ravagers have ravaged them # 2:2 Is 24:1,3

and ruined their vine branches. # 2:2 Ps 80:12–15; Jr 12:10

3The shields of his # 2:3 = the army commander attacking Nineveh warriors are dyed red;

the valiant men are dressed in scarlet. # 2:3 Ezk 23:14

The fittings of the chariot flash like fire # 2:3 2Kg 2:11; 6:17; Is 66:15

on the day of its battle preparations,

and the spears are brandished.

4The chariots dash madly through the streets;

they rush around in the plazas.

They look like torches;

they dart back and forth like lightning.

5He gives orders to his officers;

they stumble as they advance.

They race to its wall;

the protective shield is set in place.

6The river gates are opened,

and the palace erodes away. # 2:6 Nah 1:8

7Beauty # 2:7 Text emended; MT reads Huzzab is stripped; # 2:7 Hb obscure

she is carried away;

her ladies-in-waiting moan

like the sound of doves # 2:7 Is 38:14; 59:11

and beat their breasts. # 2:7 Is 32:12

8Nineveh has been like a pool of water

from her first days, # 2:8 Hb obscure

but they are fleeing.

“Stop! Stop! ” they cry,

but no one turns back.

9“Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! ” # 2:9 Ezk 38:13

There is no end to the treasure,

an abundance of every precious thing. # 2:9 2Ch 32:27; 36:10; Dn 11:8; Nah 3:3

10Desolation, decimation, devastation!

Hearts melt, # 2:10 Dt 20:8; Jos 7:5; Is 13:7; 19:1; Ezk 21:7,15

knees tremble, # 2:10 Is 35:3

insides churn, # 2:10 Ps 69:23

every face grows pale! # 2:10 Is 21:3; Jl 2:6

11Where is the lions’ lair, # 2:11 Is 2:15; 5:26–29; Jr 4:7; 5:6; 50:17; 51:38; Jl 1:6; Am 3:12

or the feeding ground of the young lions,

where the lion and lioness prowled,

and the lion’s cub,

with nothing to frighten them away? # 2:11 Lv 26:6; Dt 28:26; Jr 7:33

12The lion mauled whatever its cubs needed

and strangled prey for its lionesses.

It filled up its dens with the kill,

and its lairs with mauled prey. # 2:12 Jb 38:39–40

13Beware, I am against you. # 2:13 Jr 21:13; 23:30–32; 50:31; 51:25; Ezk 5:8; 13:8; 21:3; 26:3; 28:22; 29:3,10; 38:3; 39:1; Nah 3:5

This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies.

I will make your chariots go up in smoke, # 2:13 Lit will burn her chariots in smoke

and the sword will devour your young lions. # 2:13 Is 31:8; Jr 46:10

I will cut off your prey from the earth,

and the sound of your messengers

will never be heard again. # 2:13 Rv 18:22–23

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Nachum 2

1 Hinei, upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth Besorah (Good News),

that publisheth Shalom!

O Yehudah, keep thy chagim,

fulfill thy nedarim;

for the Beliya'al shall no more pass through thee;

he is utterly cut off.

2 A shatterer#2:2 Ninevehʼs overpowering enemy is come up before thy face [O Nineveh];

guard thy fortress, watch the derech,

fortify thy loins, marshal all thy koach (power).

3 For Hashem is about to restore the eminence of Ya'akov,

like the eminence of Yisroel;

for plunderers have plundered them,

and made their vine branches as shachat.

4 The mogen (shield) of his gibborim is made red,

the anshei chayil (valiant men) are in scarlet;

the chariot shall flash like fire

in the day of its array,

and the spears shall be brandished.

5 The chariot shall rage in the streets,

they shall jostle one against another in the rechovot,

they shall seem like flaming torches,

they shall dart about like the lightnings.

6 He#2:6a the Assyrian king shall remember his mighty ones;

they stumble in their walk;

they shall make haste to the chomah (wall) of it,#2:6b Nineveh

and the defense shall be prepared.

7 The sha'arei haneharot (the gates of the rivers) shall be thrown open,

and the heikhal (palace) reels.

8 Her#2:8 Ninevehʼs golus (exile) is decreed, she shall be carried away,

her slave girls moaning like the kol yonim (voice of doves),

beating their breasts.

9 But Nineveh is like a pool of mayim;

and her mayim is draining away.

Stop, stop, shall they cry;

but no one turns back.

10 Take ye the plunder of kesef, take the plunder of zahav;

for there is no end of the treasures,

heaps of kol keli chemdah (every delightful vessel).

11 She is empty, and void, and stripped;

and the lev melteth,

and the knees give way,

bodies tremble,

and the faces of them all grow pale.

12 Where is the ma'on arayot (den of lions),

and the feeding place of the young lions,

where the aryeh, even the lioness,

walked with their cubs, and none made them afraid?

13 The aryeh did tear in pieces enough for his cubs,

and strangled for his lionesses,

and filled his lairs with prey,

and his dens with torn flesh.

14 Hineni, I am against thee [O Nineveh], saith Hashem Tzva'os, and I will burn your chariots in the smoke, and the cherev shall devour thy young lions; and I will cut off thy prey from ha'aretz, and the voice of thy malachim (messengers) shall no more be heard.

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