Nahum 2
1 [You people of] [APO] Nineveh, your enemies are coming to attack you. [So] place guards on the tops of the walls around the city! Guard the roads [into the city]! Get ready to fight! Gather your troops/soldiers [MTY] together!
Está ya delante de ti el devastador; guarda la plaza fuerte, observa los caminos; fortalece tus lomos, aumenta mucho tus fuerzas.
2 Even though enemy soldiers have destroyed the descendants of [MTY] Jacob, Yahweh will cause them to be honored again. Israel is like a grapevine that has been ruined, but Israel will prosper again.
Pues Yahvé restaura la gloria de Jacob, así como la gloria de Israel; porque los saquearon saqueadores que destruyeron sus vástagos.
3 The shields of the enemy soldiers [who are coming to attack you] will shine red [as the sun shines on them], and they will wear bright red uniforms. The metal of their chariot [wheels] will flash when they line up [before the battle], and their soldiers will lift up their cypress/pine spears and wave them.
Los escudos de sus guerreros están teñidos de rojo, sus valientes vestidos de púrpura; sus carros centellean como acero en el día de la reseña, y vibran sus lanzas.
4 Their chariots will dash through the streets [of Nineveh] and rush furiously through the plazas. Going as quick as lightning, they will resemble flaming torches.
Los carros se precipitan por las calles, atraviesan veloces las plazas; parecen antorchas, corren como relámpagos.
5 [Meanwhile], your king will summon his officers who will stumble as they [try to] come [quickly]. They will dash to the [city] wall, holding their shields to protect themselves.
Él (rey) llama a sus valientes, que se precipitan por los caminos y corren presurosos al muro; se prepara la defensa.
6 But, the gates [of the dams] on the rivers will be thrown open [by enemy soldiers], and [the flood will cause] the palace to collapse.
Pero ya se abren las puertas de los ríos, y cae el palacio.
7 The queen will have her clothes stripped off her [by enemy soldiers], and her slave girls will moan like doves and beat their breasts [to show that they are very sad].
Ha sido llevado a cabo; (Nínive) ha sido desnudada, es llevada (al cautiverio); sus criadas gimen, como con voz de paloma, y se golpean los pechos.
8 [The people will rush from] Nineveh like [SIM] water rushes from a broken dam. [The officials] will shout, “Stop! Stop!” but the people will not even look back [as they run away].
Nínive es desde la antigüedad como un estanque de aguas, las cuales se van. ¡Deteneos, deteneos! pero nadie vuelve.
9 [The enemy attackers say to each other, ] “Seize the silver! Grab the gold! There is a huge amount of very valuable things in this city, more valuable things than anyone can count!”
¡Saquead la plata! ¡Saquead el oro! no tienen fin los tesoros, es inmenso el peso de toda suerte de objetos preciosos.
10 [Soon everything valuable in the city] will be seized or ruined. People will be trembling, with the result that they will not be able to fight. Their faces will all become pale.
Queda vacía, devastada y desolada; se desmayan los corazones y tiemblan las rodillas; se quebrantan todos los lomos, y palidecen los rostros de todos.
11 [After that happens, people will say, ] “What happened to [RHQ] that [great city of Nineveh]? [It was like] [MET] a den [full] of young lions, where the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones.
¿Dónde está la guarida de los leones, el lugar de pasto de los leoncillos? ¿Adónde se han retirado el león, la leona y el cachorro, sin que nadie los espantase?
12 [The soldiers in Nineveh were like] [MET] lions that killed or strangled [other animals] [and brought the meat] to their dens.”
el león que destrozaba lo que necesitaba para sus cachorros, y ahogaba para sus leonas; llenaba sus cubiles de presa y sus guaridas de rapiña.
13 The Commander of the armies of angels says [to the people of Nineveh], “I am opposed to you; I will cause your chariots to [be burned in fires and] go up in smoke. Your young men will be killed with swords. [Your soldiers] will never again conquer [other nations] and seize their valuable possessions. Your messengers will never again take messages [to other nations, demanding that their armies surrender to them].”
Heme aquí contra ti, dice Yahvé de los ejércitos; reduciré a humo tus carros, y la espada devorará a tus leoncillos; exterminaré de la tierra tu rapiña, y no será oída más la voz de tus embajadores.
