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2:1  The shatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
2:2  (For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have stripped them and ruined their branches.)
2:3  The shield of his mighty men is red, his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots flash like flame when mustered in array; the chargers prance.
2:4  The chariots rage in the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches, they dart like lightning.
2:5  The officers are summoned, they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall, the mantelet is set up.
2:6  The river gates are opened, the palace is in dismay;
2:7  its mistress is stripped, she is carried off, her maidens lamenting, moaning like doves, and beating their breasts.
2:8  Nin′eveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry; but none turns back.
2:9  Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure, or wealth of every precious thing.
2:10  Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts faint and knees tremble, anguish is on all loins, all faces grow pale!
2:11  Where is the lions’ den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion brought his prey, where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
2:12  The lion tore enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
2:13  Behold, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.