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1A scatterer has come up against you.[#Jer 51.20–23; Nah 3.12, 14]
Guard the ramparts;
watch the road;
gird your loins;
collect all your strength.
2(For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob,[#Isa 60.15; Ezek 37.21–23]
as well as the majesty of Israel,
though ravagers have ravaged them
and ruined their branches.)
3The shields of his warriors are red;[#Job 39.23; Ezek 23.14, 15]
his soldiers are clothed in crimson.
The metal on the chariots flashes
on the day when he musters them;
the chargers prance.
4The chariots race madly through the streets;[#Jer 4.13; Ezek 26.10]
they rush to and fro through the squares;
their appearance is like torches;
they dart like lightning.
5He calls his officers;
they stumble as they come forward;
they hasten to the wall,
and the screen is set up.
6The river gates are opened;
the palace trembles.
7It is decreed that the city be exiled,[#Isa 59.11; #2.7 Meaning of Heb uncertain; #2.7 Heb it]
its slave women led away,
moaning like doves
and beating their breasts.
8Nineveh is like a pool[#Jer 46.5; 47.3; Nah 3.7]
whose waters run away.
“Halt! Halt!”—
but no one turns back.
9“Plunder the silver;
plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
An abundance of every precious thing!”
10Devastation, desolation, and destruction![#Ps 22.14; Isa 13.7, 8; Joel 2.6]
Hearts faint and knees tremble;
all loins quake;
all faces grow pale!
11What became of the lions’ den,[#Isa 5.29; Jer 4.7; Nah 3.1]
the cave of the young lions,
where the lion goes,
and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?
12The lion has torn enough for his whelps[#Isa 10.6–14; Jer 51.34]
and strangled prey for his lionesses;
he has filled his caves with prey
and his dens with torn flesh.
13See, 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 be heard no more.[#Ps 46.9; Isa 49.24, 25; Nah 3.5; #2.13 Heb her]