Nahum 2 Geneva Bible (1599)
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- Original 16th-century spelling.
1 The destroyer is come before thy face: keepe the munition: looke to the way: make thy loynes strong: increase thy strength mightily.
1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
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.
2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.
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.
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
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.
4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
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.
5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
6 The gates of the riuers shalbe opened, and the palace shall melt.
6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
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.
7 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
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.
8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.
9 Spoyle ye the siluer, spoyle the golde: for there is none ende of the store, and glorie of all the pleasant vessels.
9 Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.
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.
10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
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.
11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?
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.
12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.
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.
13 “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
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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