See in Reader
61 lines
2.2 KiB
Plaintext
61 lines
2.2 KiB
Plaintext
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\c 2
|
||
|
|
\p
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 1 The one who will dash you to pieces is coming up against you.
|
||
|
|
\q Man the city walls, guard the roads,
|
||
|
|
\q make yourselves strong, assemble your armies.
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 2 For Yahweh is restoring the majesty of Jacob, like the majesty of Israel,
|
||
|
|
\q although the plunderers devastated them and destroyed their vine branches.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 3 The shields of his mighty men are red, and the courageous men are clothed in scarlet;
|
||
|
|
\q the chariots flash with their metal on the day that they are made ready, and the cypress spears are waved in the air.
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 4 The chariots speed through the streets; they rush to and fro in the wide streets.
|
||
|
|
\q They look like torches, and they run like lightning.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 5 The one who will dash you to pieces calls his officers; they stumble over each other in their march;
|
||
|
|
\q they hurry to attack the city wall. The large shield is made ready to protect these attackers.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 6 The gates at the rivers are forced open, and the palace falls to ruins.
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 7 The queen is stripped of her clothes and is taken away;
|
||
|
|
\q her female servants moan like doves, beating on their breasts.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 8 Nineveh is like a leaking pool of water, with its people fleeing away like rushing water.
|
||
|
|
\q Others shout, "Stop, stop," but no one looks back.
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 9 Take the silver plunder, take the gold plunder, for there is no end to it,
|
||
|
|
\q to the splendor of all Nineveh's beautiful things.
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 10 Nineveh is empty and ruined. Everyone's heart melts, everyone's knees strike together,
|
||
|
|
\q and anguish is in everyone; their faces are all pale.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 11 Where now is the lions' den, the place where the young lion cubs feed,
|
||
|
|
\q the place where the lion and lioness walked, with the cubs, where they were afraid of nothing?
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 12 The lion tore his victims to pieces for his cubs; he strangled victims for his lionesses,
|
||
|
|
\q and filled his cave with victims, his dens with torn carcasses.
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
\s5
|
||
|
|
\q
|
||
|
|
\v 13 "See, I am against you"—this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
|
||
|
|
\q "I will burn your chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions.
|
||
|
|
\q I will cut off your plunder from your land, and the voices of your messengers will be heard no more."
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
||
|
|
|