Nahum 2章 ESV | 微读圣经

The Destruction of Nineveh

12:1 [Jer. 51:20] The scatterer has come up against you.

2:1 [Jer. 51:12]Man the ramparts;

watch the road;

dress for battle;2:1 Hebrew gird your loins

collect all your strength.

2For 2:2 [Isa. 37:31] the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob

as the majesty of Israel,

for plunderers have plundered them

and 2:2 See Ps. 80:8-13; Isa. 5:1-7ruined their branches.

3The shield of his mighty men is red;

2:3 [Ezek. 23:14, 15]his soldiers are clothed in scarlet.

The chariots come with flashing metal

on the day he musters them;

the cypress spears are brandished.

42:4 [ch. 3:2]The chariots race madly through the streets;

they rush to and fro through the squares;

they gleam like torches;

they dart like lightning.

5He remembers 2:5 ch. 3:18his officers;

2:5 Jer. 46:12they stumble as they go,

they hasten to the wall;

the siege tower2:5 Or the mantelet is set up.

62:6 [Isa. 45:1] The river gates are opened;

the palace 2:6 [Isa. 14:31]melts away;

7its mistress2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain is 2:7 [Isa. 22:8] stripped;2:7 Or exiled she is carried off,

her slave girls 2:7 Isa. 38:14lamenting,

moaning like doves

and beating their breasts.

82:8 See ch. 1:1Nineveh is like a pool

whose waters run away.2:8 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

“Halt! Halt!” they cry,

but 2:8 Jer. 46:5none turns back.

9Plunder the silver,

plunder the gold!

There is no end of the treasure

or of the wealth of all precious things.

102:10 See Zeph. 2:13-15Desolate! Desolation and ruin!

2:10 Ps. 22:14; Isa. 13:7Hearts melt and 2:10 Dan. 5:6knees tremble;

2:10 Isa. 21:3anguish is in all loins;

2:10 Joel 2:6all faces grow pale!

11Where is the lions’ den,

the feeding place of 2:11 Isa. 5:29; Jer. 2:15the young lions,

where the lion and lioness went,

where his cubs were, with 2:11 See Isa. 17:2none to disturb?

122:12 [Ezek. 19:3] The lion tore enough for his cubs

and 2:12 [ver. 9; ch. 3:1]strangled prey for his lionesses;

he filled his caves with prey

and his dens with torn flesh.

132:13 ch. 3:5; [Zeph. 2:5]; See Ezek. 13:8Behold, I am against you, declares the Lord of hosts, and 2:13 [Ps. 46:9] I will burn your2:13 Hebrew her chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and 2:13 [2 Kgs. 19:9, 23]the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard.

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