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Nahum 2:7

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.

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

Like a swallow or a crane I clamor, I moan like a dove. My eyes are weary with looking upward. O Lord, I am oppressed; be thou my security!

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

And if any survivors escape, they will be on the mountains, like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one over his iniquity.

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

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

And as Peter was below in the courtyard, one of the maids of the high priest came;

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

And all the multitudes who assembled to see the sight, when they saw what had taken place, returned home beating their breasts.