Nahum 2:3-10

Evangelical Heritage Version

³ The shields of the mighty warriors are dyed red.
    The soldiers are dressed in scarlet garments.
    The steel fittings^[a] of the chariots shine like fire on the day of battle.
    The soldiers shake their spears.^[b]
4 The chariots race wildly through the streets.
    They rush back and forth in the city squares.
    They look like lightning.
    They dart about like flashes of lightning.
⁵ The commander^[c] gives orders to his elite troops.
    They fall over each other as they advance.
    They rush to the city wall.
    They set up the protective canopy over the battering ram.
⁶ The gates that hold back the river are opened,
    and the palace is washed away.

⁷ She is stripped and is led away.
    Her slave girls moan like doves
    while they beat their breasts.^[d]

⁸ Nineveh^[e] was like a pool of water from her beginning,^[f]
    but now her people are running away.
    She cries out, “Stop! Stop!” but no one turns back.

⁹ Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!
    There is no end to the treasure.
    There are riches of every kind of precious thing.

¹⁰ Destruction, devastation, and desolation!
    Their hearts faint, their knees tremble,
    every stomach churns, and each face turns pale!