Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
Nahum 2:7 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Beauty is stripped; she is carried away; her ladies-in-waiting moan like the sound of doves and beat their breasts. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition It is decreed. She [Nineveh] is stripped and removed, and her maids are lamenting and moaning like doves [softly for fear], beating upon their breasts [and hearts]. American Standard Version (1901) And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts. Common English Bible It is decreed: She is sent into exile, carried away, while her female servants moan like doves, beating their breasts. Catholic Public Domain Version And the foot soldier has been led away captive, and her handmaids were driven away, mourning like doves, murmuring in their hearts. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts. |
Beat your breasts in mourning for the delightful fields and the fruitful vines,
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.
The survivors among them will escape and live on the mountains. Like doves of the valley, all of them will moan, each over his own iniquity.
Look, your troops are like women among you; your land’s city gates are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
While Peter was in the courtyard below, one of the high priest’s maidservants came.
A large crowd of people followed him, including women who were mourning and lamenting him.
All the crowds that had gathered for this spectacle, when they saw what had taken place, went home, striking their chests.