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2 He who scatters has come··up before thy face. Preserve the siege, watch the way, make··firm thy loins, encourage thy power exceedingly.
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3 For Jehovah has turned··back the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for they who exhaust have exhausted them, and destroyed their sprigs.
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4 The shield of his heroes* is made red, the men◦ of valor are made scarlet; in the fire of torches is the chariot, in the day of his preparation, and the fir··trees shall be··in··trepidation.
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5 The chariots shall rave in the streets; they shall jostle against each other in the avenues; their appearance shall be as torches; they shall run as the lightnings.
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6 He shall remember his magnificent ones; they shall stumble in their walking; they shall make··haste to her wall, and the shelter shall be prepared.
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7 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace◦ shall be dissolved.
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8 And Huzzab shall be exiled, she shall be brought··up, and her maidservants shall direct her as the voice of doves, playing··on··timbrels on their hearts.
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9 But Nineveh was as a pool of water from the days that she◦ was; but now they◦ shall flee. Stand, Stand, they cry, but none shall turn· their ·face.
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10 Plunder silver, Plunder gold; and there is no end to the dimension of glory from all the vessels of desire.
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11 She exhausts, and is··exhausted, and emptied··out◦; and the heart melts, and there is staggering at the knees, and travailing in all the loins, and the faces of all of them bring··together a blackening◦.
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12 Where◦ is the abode of the lions, and the feeding··place—it◦ was for the young··lions—Where the lion, the old··lion walked, and the whelp of a lion, and none frightened them?
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13 The lion tore enough for his whelps, and strangled for his old··lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his abodes with what is torn.
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14 Behold, I am against▵ thee, says◦ Jehovah of Armies, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall eat··up thy young··lions; and I will cut··off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall not be heard any··more.
