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Nahum 2:7

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

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

I chattered like a swallow or a crane. I moaned like a dove. My eyes weaken looking upward. Lord, I am oppressed. Be my security.*

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

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

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

Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

As Kefa was in the courtyard below, one of the maids of the Kohen Gadol came,

A great multitude of the people followed him, including women who also mourned and lamented him.

All the multitudes that came together to see this, when they saw the things that were done, returned home beating their breasts.