Nahum 2:3-10

American Standard Version

³ The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots ^[a]flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the ^[b]cypress spears are brandished. ⁴ The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings. ⁵ He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared. ⁶ The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. ^7 [c]And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids ^[d]moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their ^[e]breasts.

⁸ But Nineveh hath been ^[f]from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none ^[g]looketh back. ⁹ Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the ^[h]glory of all goodly furniture. ¹⁰ She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.