Nahum 2:3-10
1599 Geneva Bible
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, [a]the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and [b]the fir trees shall tremble.
4 The chariots shall rage in the streets: they shall run to and fro in the highways: they shall seem like lamps: they shall shoot like the lightning.
5 [c]He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they go: they shall make haste to the walls thereof, and the defense shall be prepared.
6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall melt.
7 And Huzzab the Queen shall be led away captive, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, smiting upon their breasts.
8 But Nineveh is [d]of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry: but none shall look back.
9 [e]Spoil ye the silver, spoil the gold: for there is none end of the store and glory of all the pleasant vessels.
10 [f]She is empty and void and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorrow is in all loins, and the faces [g]of them all gather blackness.
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- Nahum 2:3 Both to fear the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon espy blood one of another to discourage them.
- Nahum 2:3 Meaning, their spears should shake and crash together.
- Nahum 2:5 Then the Assyrians shall seek by all means to gather their power, but all things shall fail them.
- Nahum 2:8 The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say, that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters they that walk on the banks cannot touch, but they shall be scattered, and shall not look back though men would call them.
- Nahum 2:9 God commandeth the enemies to spoil Nineveh, and promiseth them infinite riches and treasures.
- Nahum 2:10 That is, Nineveh, and the men thereof shall be after this sort.
- Nahum 2:10 Read Joel 2:6.
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