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Nahum 2:6-7
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6 (A)The river gates are opened;
    the palace (B)melts away;
7 its mistress[a] is (C)stripped;[b] she is carried off,
    her slave girls (D)lamenting,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.

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  1. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain
  2. Nahum 2:7 Or exiled
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Nahum 2:6-7
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6 The river gates(A) are thrown open
    and the palace collapses.
7 It is decreed[a] that Nineveh
    be exiled and carried away.
Her female slaves moan(B) like doves
    and beat on their breasts.(C)

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  1. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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