Beauty[a] is stripped;[b]
she is carried away;
her ladies-in-waiting moan
like the sound of doves(A)
and beat their breasts.(B)

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  1. 2:7 Text emended; MT reads Huzzab
  2. 2:7 Hb obscure

It is decreed[a] that Nineveh
    be exiled and carried away.
Her female slaves moan(A) like doves
    and beat on their breasts.(B)

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  1. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.