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10 Emptiness and plundering and devastation!
    Their hearts faint and their knees tremble,[a]
        All their loins shake[b] and all their faces turn[c] pale.

The Divine Warrior Will Hunt down the Mighty Lions

11 Where now is the den of the lions
    and the cave of the fierce lions?
There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once prowled,[d]
    and no one disturbed them.[e]
12 The lion tore apart enough prey for his cubs,
    he strangled prey for his lioness;
he filled his lair[f] with prey
    and his den with mangled carcass.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:10 Or “totter”
  2. Nahum 2:10 Literally “And shaking of all loins”
  3. Nahum 2:10 Literally “gather”
  4. Nahum 2:11 Literally “went”
  5. Nahum 2:11 Literally “there is no one making them afraid”
  6. Nahum 2:12 Literally “his holes”