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CHAPTER 2
He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make
thy
loins strong, fortify
thy
power mightily.
2
For the L
ORD
hath turned away the excellency of Jacob,
as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.
3
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men
are
in scarlet: the chariots
shall be
with
flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
4
The chariots
shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like
torches, they shall run like the lightnings.
5
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in
their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.
6
The gates
of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.
7
And Huzzab shall be led away
captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead
her
as with the voice of doves, tabering
upon their breasts.
8
But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand,
stand,
shall they cry;
but none shall look back.
9
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold:
for
there is
none end of the store
and
glory out of all the pleasant furniture.
10
She is empty, and
void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain
is
in all loins,
and the faces of them all gather blackness.
11
Where
is
the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding
place of the young lions, where the lion,
even
the old lion, walked,
and
the lion’s whelp, and none
made
them
afraid?
12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses,
and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
13
Behold, I
am
against thee, saith the L
ORD
of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and
I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.
CHAPTER 3
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies
and
robbery; the prey departeth not;
2
The noise of a
whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping
chariots.
3
The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and
there is
a
multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and
there is
none end of
their
corpses; they
stumble upon their corpses:
4
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot,
the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts.
5
Behold, I
am
against thee, saith the L
ORD
of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon
thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6
And I will cast
abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
7
And it shall
come to pass,
that
all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste:
who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8
Art thou better than populous No,
that was situate among the rivers,
that had
the waters round about it, whose rampart
was
the sea,
and
her wall
was
from the sea?
9
Ethiopia and Egypt
were
her strength, and
it was
infinite; Put and
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