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2:1  One who shatters has come up against you! Guard the fortification! Watch the road! Gird your loins! Muster all your strength!
2:2  For Yahweh will restore the majesty of Jacob like the majesty of Israel; for ravagers have ravaged them and ruined their branches.
2:3  The shields of his warriors are dyed red; The powerful men are dressed in scarlet. The metal of the chariots shines like fire on the day of battle, and their spears quiver.
2:4  The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush back and forth in the public squares. Their appearance like lightning bolts, they dart about like flashes of lightning.
2:5  He calls his officers; they stumble as they march; they rush to her wall; they set the covering in place.
2:6  The gates of the river are opened; the palace trembles.
2:7  Her goddess is taken out and taken into exile; her maidservants moan like doves; they beat on their breasts.
2:8  Nineveh is like a pool of water without its water. As they flee, she cries, “Stop! Stop!” But there is no one who turns back.
2:9  Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to the spoils, an abundance of everything one could want!
2:10  Emptiness and plundering and devastation! Their hearts faint and their knees tremble, All their loins shake and all their faces turn pale.
2:11  Where now is the den of the lions and the cave of the fierce lions? There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once prowled, and no one disturbed them.
2:12  The lion tore apart enough prey for his cubs, he strangled prey for his lioness; he filled his lair with prey and his den with mangled carcass.
2:13  “Look! I am against you!” declares Yahweh of hosts. “I will burn her chariots with fire; the sword will devour fierce lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth; the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”