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Nahum 2:8

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Nineveh has been like a pool of water from her first days, but they are fleeing. ‘Stop! Stop! ’ they cry, but no one turns back.

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He also said to me, ‘The waters you saw,  where the prostitute was seated, are peoples, multitudes, nations, and languages.


Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls  came and spoke with me: ‘Come, I will show you the judgement of the notorious prostitute  , who is seated on many  waters.


Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are.


Babylon’s warriors have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their might is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, her gate bars are shattered.


Cut off the sower from Babylon as well as him who wields the sickle at harvest time. Because of the oppressor’s sword, each will turn to his own people, each will flee to his own land.


Why have I seen this? They are terrified, they are retreating, their warriors are crushed, they flee headlong, they never look back, terror is on every side! This is the  Lord’s declaration.


Leave Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans! Declare with a shout of joy, proclaim this, let it go out to the end of the earth; announce, ‘The Lord has redeemed his servant   Jacob! ’


You are worn out with your many consultations. So let the astrologers stand and save you – those who observe the stars, those who predict monthly what will happen to you.


Like wandering gazelles and like sheep without a shepherd, each one will turn to his own people, each one will flee to his own land.


From that land he went to Assyria  and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-ir, Calah,


You who reside by abundant water, rich in treasures, your end has come, your life thread is cut.


At the sound of the stamping hooves of his stallions, the rumbling of his chariots, and the clatter of their wheels, fathers will not turn back for their sons. They will be utterly helpless


The pronouncement  concerning Nineveh.  The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.


I chirp like a swallow or a crane; I moan like a dove. My eyes grow weak looking upwards. Lord, I am oppressed; support me.


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





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