Nahum 2 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 The one who scatters has come to attack you! Guard the fortresses! Watch the roads! Get yourselves ready! Call every soldier out!
1 SUBIÓ destruidor contra ti: guarda la fortaleza, mira el camino, fortifica los lomos, fortalece mucho la fuerza.
2 (For the Lord will restore the splendor of the people of Jacob as he will restore the splendor of Israel, for invaders have plundered them, and destroyed their land.)
2 Porque Jehová restituirá la gloria de Jacob como la gloria de Israel; porque vaciadores los vaciaron, y estropearon sus mugrones.
3 The shields of his chief soldiers are red; the warriors wear scarlet. His chariots flash like fire in the sunlight as he prepares for battle. Spears with their wooden shafts are held up and shaken.
3 El escudo de sus valientes será bermejo, los varones de [su] ejército vestidos de grana: el carro como fuego de hachas; el día que se aparejará, temblarán las hayas.
4 Chariots race madly through the streets, rushing back and forth across the town squares. Bright as torches, they dash like lightning flashes.
4 Los carros se precipitarán á las plazas, discurrirán por las calles: su aspecto como hachas encendidas; correrán como relámpagos.
5 He shouts orders to his officers. They stumble as they rush to attack the wall. The battering ram is set up.
5 Acordaráse él de sus valientes; andando tropezarán; se apresurarán á su muro, y la cubierta se aparejará.
6 The river gates are opened; the palace washes away.
6 Las puertas de los ríos se abrirán, y el palacio será destruído.
7 “Queen” Nineveh is stripped, and led away into exile, with her servant girls mourning like doves, and beating their breasts.
7 Y la reina fué cautiva; mandarle han que suba, y sus criadas la llevarán gimiendo como palomas, batiendo sus pechos.
8 Nineveh is a leaky pool—its population is like water running away. “Stop! Stop” people shout, but nobody turns back.
8 Y fué Nínive de tiempo antiguo como estanque de aguas; mas ellos huyen: Parad, parad; y ninguno mira.
9 Loot the silver! Loot the gold! There's an endless supply—an abundance of everything you could ever want.
9 Saquead plata, saquead oro: no hay fin de las riquezas [y] suntuosidad de todo ajuar de codicia.
10 Deserted, destroyed, devastated! Hearts faint, knees tremble, stomachs ache. Everyone's faces turn pale.
10 Vacía, y agotada, y despedazada está, y el corazón derretido: batimiento de rodillas, y dolor en todos riñones, y los rostros de todos tomarán negrura.
11 Where now is the lion's den? Where is the place where the young lions used to feed? Where is the lion, and the lioness, and the lion cub that were afraid of no one?
11 ¿Qué es de la morada de los leones, y de la majada de los cachorros de los leones, donde se recogía el león, y la leona, y los cachorros del león, y no había quien les pusiese miedo?
12 The lion tears apart meat for his cubs, and strangles prey for his lionesses. He fills his den with prey, his lair with carcasses.
12 El león arrebataba en abundancia para sus cachorros, y ahogaba para sus leonas, y henchía de presa sus cavernas, y de robo sus moradas.
13 Watch out! For I am against you, declares the Lord Almighty. I will set fire to your chariots and they will go up in smoke. Your strong young men will be killed by the sword. I will stop you plundering other peoples. The demands of your ambassadors will no longer be heard.
13 Heme aquí contra ti, dice Jehová de los ejércitos. Encenderé y [reduciré] á humo [tus] carros, y espada devorará tus leoncillos; y raeré de la tierra tu robo, y nunca más se oirá voz de tus embajadores.
Cross references (13)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joel 3:9–11; 2 Chronicles 25:8; Jeremiah 51:20–23; Jeremiah 51:11–12; Jeremiah 50:23
- 2 Psalm 80:12–13; Ezekiel 37:23; Zephaniah 3:11; Isaiah 60:15; Hosea 10:1
- 3 Ezekiel 23:14–15; Isaiah 63:1–3; Zechariah 1:8; Zechariah 11:2; Zechariah 6:2
- 4 Jeremiah 4:13; Ezekiel 26:10; Nahum 3:2–3; Isaiah 66:15; Daniel 11:40
- 5 Jeremiah 46:12; Jeremiah 51:27–28; Isaiah 21:5; Jeremiah 50:29; Isaiah 5:27
- 6 Isaiah 45:1–2; 2 Peter 3:10–11
- 7 Isaiah 59:11; Isaiah 38:14; Isaiah 32:12; Luke 23:27; Luke 23:48
- 8 Revelation 17:1; Isaiah 47:13; Jeremiah 46:5; Nahum 3:17; Jeremiah 50:16
- 9 Ezekiel 26:12; Daniel 11:8; Jeremiah 25:34; Jeremiah 51:56; Nahum 2:12–13
- 10 Joel 2:6; Daniel 5:6; Psalm 22:14; Jeremiah 30:6; Isaiah 13:7–8
- 11 Isaiah 5:29; Jeremiah 2:15; Zephaniah 3:3; Ezekiel 19:2–8; Job 4:10–11
- 12 Jeremiah 51:34; Isaiah 10:6–14; Psalm 17:12
- 13 Psalm 46:9; Jeremiah 21:13; Nahum 3:5; 2 Kings 19:23; Isaiah 49:24–25
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