Nahum 2
1 to ascend: rise scatterer upon face of your to watch fortress to watch way: road to strengthen: strengthen loin to strengthen strength much
A maul is come up before thy face; guard the defences, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily! —
2 for to return: rescue LORD [obj] pride Jacob like/as pride Israel for to empty them to empty and branch their to ruin
For the LORD restoreth the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel; for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine-branches. —
3 shield mighty man his to redden human strength: soldiers to clothe in scarlet in/on/with fire iron [the] chariot in/on/with day to establish: prepare he and [the] cypress to quiver
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet; the chariots are fire of steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress spears are made to quiver.
4 in/on/with outside to boast: rave madly [the] chariot to rush [emph?] in/on/with street/plaza appearance their like/as torch like/as lightning to run: run
The chariots rush madly in the streets, they jostle one against another in the broad places; the appearance of them is like torches, they run to and fro like the lightnings.
5 to remember great his to stumble (in/on/with walk their *Q(K)*) to hasten wall her and to establish: establish [the] protector
He bethinketh himself of his worthies; they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
6 gate [the] river to open and [the] temple: palace to melt
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
7 and to stand to reveal: uncover to ascend: establish and maidservant her to moan like/as voice dove to beat upon heart their
And the queen is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
8 and Nineveh like/as pool water from day he/she/it and they(masc.) to flee to stand: stand to stand: stand and nothing to turn
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water; yet they flee away; 'Stand, stand'; but none looketh back.
9 to plunder silver: money to plunder gold and nothing end to/for fitting glory from all article/utensil desire
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, rich with all precious vessels.
10 emptiness and emptiness and to waste and heart to melt and tottering knee and anguish in/on/with all loin and face of all their to gather pale
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and convulsion is in all loins, and the faces of them all have gathered blackness.
11 where? habitation lion and pasture he/she/it to/for lion which to go: went lion lion there whelp lion and nothing to tremble
Where is the den of the lions, which was the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?
12 lion to tear in/on/with sufficiency whelp his and to strangle to/for lion his and to fill prey hole his and habitation his torn animal
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.
13 look! I to(wards) you utterance LORD Hosts and to burn: burn in/on/with smoke chariot her and lion your to eat sword and to cut: cut from land: country/planet prey your and not to hear: hear still voice messenger your
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.
