2 LSV

1. A scatterer has come up to your face, keep the bulwark, watch the way, strengthen the loins, strengthen power mightily.

2. For YHWH has turned back to the excellence of Jacob, as to the excellence of Israel, for emptiers have emptied them out, and they have marred their branches.

3. The shield of his mighty ones has become red, men of might are in scarlet, with fiery torches is the chariot in a day of his preparation, and the firs have been caused to tremble.

4. In out-places the chariots shine, they go to and fro in broad places, their appearances are like torches, as lightnings they run.

5. He remembers his majestic ones, they stumble in their goings, they hurry to its wall, and the covering is prepared.

6. Gates of the rivers have been opened, and the palace is dissolved.

7. And it is established—she has removed, she has been brought up, and her handmaids are leading as the voice of doves, tabering on their hearts.

8. And Nineveh is as a pool of waters, from of old it is—and they are fleeing! “Stand, stand”; and none is turning!

9. Seize silver, seize gold, and there is no end to the prepared things, to the abundance of all desirable vessels.

10. She is empty, indeed, emptiness and waste, and the heart has melted, and the knees have struck together, and great pain is in all loins, and the faces of all of them have gathered paleness.

11. Where is the habitation of lionesses? And a feeding-place it is for young lions where a lion has walked, an old lion, a lion’s whelp, and there is none troubling.

12. The lion is tearing parts for his whelps, and is strangling for his lionesses, and he fills his holes with prey, and his habitations with torn flesh.

13. “Behold, I am against you,” a declaration of YHWH of Hosts, “And I have burned its chariot in smoke, and a sword consumes your young lions, and I have cut off your prey from the land, and the voice of your messengers is not heard anymore!”