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1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.

6 The river gates are opened, the palace trembles.

2 The crack of whip and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

1 Ah! City of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of booty— no end to the plunder!

10 Like thorns they are entangled, like drunkards they are drunk; they are consumed like dry straw.

11 From you one has gone out who plots evil against the Lord, one who counsels wickedness.

8 Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!"— but no one turns back.

10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble, all loins quake, all faces grow pale!

6 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a spectacle.

13 And now I will break off his yoke from you and snap the bonds that bind you."

9 Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.

9 Why do you plot against the Lord? He will make an end; no adversary will rise up twice.

9 "Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure! An abundance of every precious thing!"

11 You also will be drunken, you will go into hiding; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.

7 The Lord is good, a stronghold in a day of trouble; he protects those who take refuge in him,

16 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.

1 A shatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.

7 It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; trample the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!

8 even in a rushing flood. He will make a full end of his adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.