Nahum 2 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (1)
- Original 16th-century spelling.
Nahum is not in PT1904.
1 The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.
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2 For the Lord hath turned away the glorie of Iaakob, as the glorie of Israel: for the emptiers haue emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
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3 The shield of his mightie men is made red: the valiant men are in skarlet: the charets shalbe as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and the firre trees shall tremble.
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4 The charets shall rage in the streetes: they shall runne to and from in the hie wayes: they shall seeme like lampes: they shall shoote like the lightning.
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5 He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they goe: they shall make haste to the walles thereof, and the defence shall bee prepared.
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6 The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.
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7 And Huzzab the Queene shalbe led away captiue, and her maides shall leade her as with the voyce of doues, smiting vpon their breastes.
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8 But Nineueh is of olde like a poole of water: yet they shall flee away. Stande, stande, shall they crie: but none shall looke backe.
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9 Spoyle ye the siluer, spoyle the golde: for there is none ende of the store, and glorie of all the pleasant vessels.
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10 She is emptie and voyde and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorowe is in all loynes, and the faces of the all gather blackenesse.
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11 Where is the dwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyons whelpes? where the lyon, and the lionesse walked, and the lyons whelpe, and none made them afrayde.
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12 The lyon did teare in pieces ynough for his whelpes, and woryed for his lyonesse, and filled his holes with praye, and his dennes with, spoyle.
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13 Beholde, I come vnto thee, sayeth the Lord of hostes, and I will burne her charets in the smoke, and the sworde shall deuoure thy yong lyons, and I will cut off thy spoyle from the earth, and the voyce of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
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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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