translation_id: asv-eng-asv

book_id: NAM

book: Nahum

reference: Nahum 2:1

text: He that dasheth in pieces is come up against thee: keep the fortress, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.


reference: Nahum 2:2

text: For Jehovah restoreth the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and destroyed their vine-branches.


reference: Nahum 2:3

text: The 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 cypress spears are brandished.


reference: Nahum 2:4

text: The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.


reference: Nahum 2:5

text: He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.


reference: Nahum 2:6

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


reference: Nahum 2:7

text: And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.


reference: Nahum 2:8

text: But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.


reference: Nahum 2:9

text: Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.


reference: Nahum 2:10

text: She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.


reference: Nahum 2:11

text: Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?


reference: Nahum 2:12

text: The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.


reference: Nahum 2:13

text: Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah 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.