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Nahum 2:7

Modern English Version

It is decreed: She is uncovered and led away captive; her handmaidens shall lead her as with the voice of doves, beating their chests.

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

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

We all roar like bears and mourn sadly like doves; we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us.

Even when their survivors escape, they shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one over his iniquity.

The holding gates are opened wide, and the palace washes away.

Your troops are women in your midst! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.

While Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the servant girls of the high priest came.

A large number of people followed Him, including women who mourned and lamented Him.

All the crowds who came together to that sight, witnessing what occurred, struck their chests and returned.