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Nahum 2

Nahum pictures the fall of Nineveh. An attacker comes up against the city; the LORD is restoring the glory of Jacob. Shields are red, chariots race through the streets, the river gates are opened and the palace dissolves. The city is plundered of its silver and gold. Nineveh, once a den of lions that filled its lairs with prey, is now empty, because the LORD of hosts says, I am against you.

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Key verses

  • Verse 2Jacob's glory, emptied by plunderers, is restored.
  • Verse 6The river gates open and the palace dissolves.
  • Verse 11Where is the lions' den now?
  • Verse 13The LORD of hosts: I am against you.

He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.SelectedNahum 2:1Ask

For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.SelectedNahum 2:2Ask

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.SelectedNahum 2:3Ask

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.SelectedNahum 2:4Ask

He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.SelectedNahum 2:5Ask

The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.SelectedNahum 2:6Ask

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.SelectedNahum 2:7Ask

But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.SelectedNahum 2:8Ask

Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.SelectedNahum 2:9Ask

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.SelectedNahum 2:10Ask

Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?SelectedNahum 2:11Ask

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.SelectedNahum 2:12Ask

Behold, I am against thee, saith the 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 heard.SelectedNahum 2:13Ask

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