Nahum 2:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ It is decreed. She [Nineveh] is stripped and removed, and her maids are lamenting and moaning like doves [softly for fear], beating upon their breasts [and hearts].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

Common English Bible

⁷ It is decreed: She is sent into exile, carried away, while her female servants moan like doves, beating their breasts.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ And the foot soldier has been led away captive, and her handmaids were driven away, mourning like doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Nahum 2:7 Cross References

Isaiah 32:12

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

Isaiah 38:14

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor; I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be my security!

Isaiah 59:11

We all growl like bears; like doves we moan mournfully. We wait for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16

If any survivors escape, they shall be found on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning over their iniquity.

Nahum 2:6

The river gates are opened; the palace trembles.

Nahum 3:13

Look at your troops: they are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured the bars of your gates.

Mark 14:66

While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the female servants of the high priest came by.

Luke 23:27

A great number of the people followed him, and among them were women who were beating their breasts and wailing for him.

Luke 23:48

And when all the crowds who had gathered there for this spectacle saw what had taken place, they returned home, beating their breasts.