Nahum 2:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.

Cross References

Isaiah 21:5

They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes, oil the shield!

Isaiah 5:27

None is weary, none stumbles, none slumbers or sleeps, not a waistcloth is loose, not a sandal-thong broken;

Jeremiah 46:12

The nations have heard of your shame, and the earth is full of your cry; for warrior has stumbled against warrior; they have both fallen together.”

Jeremiah 50:29

“Summon archers against Babylon, all those who bend the bow. Encamp round about her; let no one escape. Requite her according to her deeds, do to her according to all that she has done; for she has proudly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Nahum 2:6

The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;

Nahum 3:18

Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.

Nahum 3:3

Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over the bodies!

Habakkuk 1:8

Their horses are swifter than leopards, more fierce than the evening wolves; their horsemen press proudly on. Yea, their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle swift to devour.