en_cjb - Nah 2 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ [(1:15)] Look! On the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, proclaiming shalom. Keep your festivals, Y’hudah, fulfill your vows; for B’liya‘al will never pass through you again; he has been completely destroyed.

² [(1)] A destroyer has risen in front of your face; guard the ramparts, keep watch on the road, brace yourselves, marshall all your strength.

³ [(2)] For ADONAI is restoring the pride of Ya‘akov, along with the pride of Isra’el; because plunderers have plundered them and ravaged their vines.

⁴ [(3)] The shields of [Ninveh’s] warriors are [dyed] red; the soldiers are wearing scarlet. The steel of the chariots flashes like fire as they prepare for battle. The cypress [spears] are poisoned.

⁵ [(4)] The chariots rush madly about in the streets, jostling each other in the open places; their appearance is like torches, they run here and there like lightning.

⁶ [(5)] [The king of Ninveh] assigns his officers; they stumble as they march; they hurry to its wall and set up shields to protect the battering ram.

⁷ [(6)] The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace melts away.

⁸ [(7)] Its mistress is stripped and carried away; her handmaids moan, they sound like doves, as they beat their breasts.

⁹ [(8)] Ninveh is like a pool whose water ebbs away. “Stop! Stop!” But none of it goes back.

¹⁰ [(9)] Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the treasure, weighed down with precious things.

¹¹ [(10)] She is void, vacant; she is made bare. Hearts are melting, knees are knocking; every stomach is churning, every face is drained of color.

¹² [(11)] What has become of the lion’s den, the cave where the young lions fed, where lion and lioness walked with their cubs, and no one made them afraid?

¹³ [(12)] The lion would tear up food for his cubs and strangle prey for his lionesses; he used to fill his caves with prey, his lairs with torn flesh.

¹⁴ [(13)] “I am against you,” says ADONAI-Tzva’ot. “Her chariots I will send up in smoke, the sword will consume your lion cubs, I will destroy your prey from the earth, and your envoys’ voices will be heard no more.”