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Nahum 2

World English Bible (WEB) • 13 verses

1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

RelatedJoel 3:9-11 · 2 Chronicles 25:8 · Jeremiah 51:20-23 · Jeremiah 51:11-12 · Jeremiah 50:23 · Jeremiah 46:3-10

2For the LORD restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.

RelatedEzekiel 37:23 · Psalms 80:12-13 · Zephaniah 3:11 · Isaiah 60:15 · Hosea 10:1 · Jeremiah 25:29

3The 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 pine spears are brandished.

RelatedEzekiel 23:14-15 · Isaiah 63:1-3 · Zechariah 11:2 · Zechariah 1:8 · Isaiah 14:8 · Zechariah 6:2

4The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

RelatedJeremiah 4:13 · Ezekiel 26:10 · Nahum 3:2-3 · Isaiah 66:15 · Isaiah 37:24 · Daniel 11:40

5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

RelatedJeremiah 46:12 · Isaiah 5:27 · Nahum 3:18 · Isaiah 21:5 · Jeremiah 51:27-28 · Jeremiah 50:29

6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

RelatedIsaiah 45:1-2 · 2 Peter 3:10-11

7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

RelatedIsaiah 59:11 · Isaiah 38:14 · Isaiah 32:12 · Luke 23:27 · Luke 23:48

8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.

RelatedJeremiah 51:30 · Isaiah 48:20 · Genesis 10:11 · Revelation 17:1 · Isaiah 13:14 · Jeremiah 50:16

9Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.

RelatedJeremiah 25:34 · 2 Chronicles 36:10 · Jeremiah 51:56 · Ezekiel 26:12 · Isaiah 33:4 · Nahum 2:12-13

10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

RelatedPsalms 22:14 · Joel 2:6 · Daniel 5:6 · Jeremiah 30:6 · Isaiah 13:7-8 · Isaiah 21:3

11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?

RelatedIsaiah 5:29 · Jeremiah 2:15 · Jeremiah 50:44 · Nahum 3:1 · Jeremiah 4:7 · Ezekiel 19:2-8

12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.

RelatedJeremiah 51:34 · Isaiah 10:6-14 · Psalms 17:12

13“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”

RelatedPsalms 46:9 · Jeremiah 21:13 · Nahum 3:5 · 2 Kings 19:23 · Nahum 3:1 · Joshua 11:9

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Translation: World English Bible (public domain) and the Tamil Old Version (BSI) — 1957.