1HE WHO dashes in pieces [that is, the king of Medo-Babylon] is come up before your face [Nineveh]. Keep the fortress {and} ramparts manned, watch the road, gird your loins, collect {and} fortify all your strength {and} power mightily.
2For the Lord restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of [ancient] Israel, for plunderers have plundered them {and} emptied them out and [outrageously] destroyed their vine branches.
3The shields of the mighty men [of Media and Babylon] are [dyed] red; the valiant men are [clothed] in dyed scarlet. The chariots blaze with fire of steel on the day of his preparation [for battle], and the officers' horses prance like a cypress forest [reeling in the wind].
4The chariots rage in confusion in the streets; they run to and fro [in wild terror] in the broad ways. They flash with steel [making them appear like torches]; they rush [in various directions] like forked lightnings.
5[The Assyrian leader] remembers {and} summons his bravest men; they stumble in their march. They hasten to the city's wall, and their movable defense shelter is prepared {and} set up.
6The gates {or} dams of the rivers [surrounding and guarding Nineveh] are opened and the [imperial] palace [of sun-dried brick] is dissolved [by the torrents] {and} is in dismay.
7It is decreed. She [Nineveh] is stripped and removed, and her maids are lamenting {and} moaning like doves [softly for fear], beating upon their breasts [and hearts].
8And Nineveh, like a standing pool are her waters and [her inhabitants] are fleeing away! Stand! Stand [firm! a few cry], but no one looks back {or} causes them to return.
9Take the spoil of silver; take the spoil of gold! For there is no end of the treasure, the glory {and} wealth of all the precious furnishings.
10Emptiness! Desolation! Utter waste! Hearts faint and knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of all grow pale!
11Where is the den of the lions which was the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
12The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps and strangled [prey] for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with what he had seized {and} carried off.
13Behold, I am against you [Nineveh], says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn {your} chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. And I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.
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