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.
02 For the Lord hath turned away the excellency
of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the
emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their
vine branches.
03 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.
04 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.
05 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.
06 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and
the palace shall be dissolved.
07 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.
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08 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.
09 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
feedingplace 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 Lord 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.
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