| Chapter 2
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| 1 | He that
dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way,
make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily. |
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2 | For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of
Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and
marred their vine branches. |
| 3 |
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet:
the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and
the fir trees shall be terribly shaken. |
| 4 | The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle
one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall
run like the lightnings. |
| 5 |
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall
make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared. |
| 6 | The gates of the rivers shall be
opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | But
Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand,
shall they cry; but none shall look back. |
| 9 | Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for
there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture. |
| 10 | She is empty, and void,
and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain
is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. |
| 11 | Where is the dwelling of the lions,
and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion,
walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid? |
| 12 | The lion did tear in pieces enough for
his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey,
and his dens with ravin. |
| 13 |
Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her
chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will
cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more
be heard. |
