Nahum 2:4-11

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⁴ The chariots race madly through the streets;
    they rush to and fro through the squares;
their appearance is like torches;
    they dart like lightning.^(A)
5 He calls his officers;
    they stumble as they come forward;
they hasten to the wall,
    and the screen^[a] is set up.
⁶ The river gates are opened;
    the palace trembles.
⁷ It is decreed^[b] that the city^[c] be exiled,
    its slave women led away,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.^(B)
8 Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters^[d] run away.
“Halt! Halt!”—
    but no one turns back.^(C)
9 “Plunder the silver;
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!”