# Nahum 2 
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1. The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength. 
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2. For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches. 
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3. The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. 
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4. The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. 
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5. He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up. 
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6. The river gates are opened; the palace melts away; 
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7. its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts. 
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8. Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back. 
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9. Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. 
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10. Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale! 
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11. Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb? 
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12. The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh. 
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13. Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard. 

(ESV)