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Nahum 2:7

A Conservative Version

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.

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We all roar like bears, and moan greatly like doves. We look for justice, but there is none, for salvation, but it is far off from us.

Like a swallow [or] a crane, so I chattered. I moaned as a dove. My eyes fail [with looking] upward. O LORD, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.

And all the multitudes who came together to this scene, watching that which happened, turned back, beating their breasts.

And a great multitude of the people followed him, and also of women who bewailed and lamented him.

They shall beat upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest comes.

But those of them who escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys. All of them moaning, each one in his iniquity.

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women. The gates of thy land are set wide open to thine enemies. The fire has devoured thy bars.