Nahum 2
1 Está ya delante de ti el devastador; guarda la plaza fuerte, observa los caminos; fortalece tus lomos, aumenta mucho tus fuerzas.
It is all over with him, he has been removed, [one] who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into your presence, watch the way, strengthen [your] loins, be very valiant in [your] strength.
2 Pues Yahvé restaura la gloria de Jacob, así como la gloria de Israel; porque los saquearon saqueadores que destruyeron sus vástagos.
For the Lord has turned aside the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: for they have utterly rejected them, and have destroyed their branches.
3 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.
[They have destroyed] the arms of their power from amongst men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots [shall be destroyed] in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion
4 Los carros se precipitan por las calles, atraviesan veloces las plazas; parecen antorchas, corren como relámpagos.
in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightnings.
5 Él (rey) llama a sus valientes, que se precipitan por los caminos y corren presurosos al muro; se prepara la defensa.
And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defences.
6 Pero ya se abren las puertas de los ríos, y cae el palacio.
The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,
7 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.
and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maidservants were led [away] as doves moaning in their hearts.
8 Nínive es desde la antigüedad como un estanque de aguas, las cuales se van. ¡Deteneos, deteneos! pero nadie vuelve.
And [as for] Nineve, her waters [shall be] as a pool of water: and they fled, and staid not, and there was none to look back.
9 ¡Saquead la plata! ¡Saquead el oro! no tienen fin los tesoros, es inmenso el peso de toda suerte de objetos preciosos.
They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded [with it] upon all their pleasant vessels.
10 Queda vacía, devastada y desolada; se desmayan los corazones y tiemblan las rodillas; se quebrantan todos los lomos, y palidecen los rostros de todos.
[There is] thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart-breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all [are] as the blackening of a pot.
11 ¿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?
Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion's whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare [him] away?
12 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.
The lion seized enough prey for his whelps, and strangled for his [young] lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling-place with spoil.
13 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.
Behold, I am against you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up your multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your lions; and I will utterly destroy your prey from off the land, and your deeds shall no more at all be heard of.
