Nahum 2

1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!Cross-references: 2Chr 25:8 · Isa 14:6 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 46:3 · Jer 50:23 · Jer 51:11 · +3 more

2For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.Cross-references: Gen 49:22 · Ps 80:12 · Isa 10:5 · Isa 60:15 · Jer 25:29 · Jer 49:9 · +3 more

3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.Cross-references: Isa 14:8 · Isa 63:1 · Ezek 23:14 · Zech 1:8 · Zech 6:2 · Zech 11:2 · +2 more

4The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.Cross-references: Isa 37:24 · Isa 66:15 · Jer 4:13 · Ezek 26:10 · Dan 11:40 · Nah 3:2

5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.Cross-references: Isa 5:27 · Isa 21:5 · Jer 46:12 · Jer 50:29 · Jer 51:27 · Nah 3:3 · +1 more

6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.Cross-references: Isa 45:1 · 2Pet 3:10

7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.Cross-references: Isa 32:12 · Isa 38:14 · Isa 59:11 · Luke 23:27 · Luke 23:48

8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one looks back.Cross-references: Gen 10:11 · Isa 13:14 · Isa 47:13 · Isa 48:20 · Jer 46:5 · Jer 50:16 · +5 more

9Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing.Cross-references: 2Chr 36:10 · Isa 33:1 · Isa 33:4 · Jer 25:34 · Jer 51:56 · Ezek 26:12 · +2 more

10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.Cross-references: Gen 1:2 · Josh 2:11 · Ps 22:14 · Isa 13:7 · Isa 13:19 · Isa 14:23 · +12 more

11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid?Cross-references: Gen 49:9 · Job 4:10 · Isa 5:29 · Isa 31:4 · Jer 2:15 · Jer 4:7 · +5 more

12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.Cross-references: Ps 17:12 · Isa 10:6 · Jer 51:34

13“Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard.”Cross-references: Josh 11:9 · 2Ki 18:17 · 2Ki 18:19 · 2Ki 18:27 · 2Ki 19:9 · 2Ki 19:23 · +21 more