Nahum 2
1 Subió destruidor contra ti: guarda la fortaleza, mira el camino, fortifica los lomos, fortalece mucho la fuerza.
[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!
2 Porque Jehová tornará así la gloria de Jacob como la gloria de Israel; porque los vaciaron vaciadores, e hirieron sus mugrones.
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.
3 El escudo de sus valientes será bermejo, los varones de su ejército vestidos de grana: el carro como fuego de hachas: el día que se aparejará, las hayas temblarán.
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.
4 Los carros harán locuras en las plazas, discurrirán por las calles sus rostros como hachas: correrán como relámpagos.
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.
5 El se acordará de sus valientes, andando tropezarán cuando se apresuraren a su muro, y la cubierta se aparejare.
[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.
6 Las puertas de los ríos se abrirán, y el palacio será destruido.
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.
7 Y la reina fue cautiva, mandarle han que suba; y sus criadas la llevarán, gimiendo como palomas, batiendo sus pechos.
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].
8 Y fue Nínive de tiempo antiguo como estanque de aguas: mas ellos ahora huyen: Parád, parád; y ninguno mira.
[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].
9 Saqueád plata, saqueád oro: no hay fin de las riquezas: honra, más que todo ajuar de codicia.
[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!”
10 Vacía, y agotada, y despedazada quedará, y el corazón derretido: batimiento de rodillas, y dolor en todos riñones; y las haces de todos ellos tomarán negrura.
[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.
11 ¿Qué es de la morada de los leones, y de la majada de los cachorros de leones, donde se recogía el león y la leona, y los cachorros del león; y no había quien les pusiese miedo?
[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.
12 El león arrebataba asaz para sus cachorros, y ahogaba para sus leonas; y henchía de presa sus cavernas, y de robo sus moradas.
[The soldiers in Nineveh were like] [MET] lions that killed or strangled [other animals] [and brought the meat] to their dens.”
13 He aquí yo hablo a ti, dijo Jehová de los ejércitos, que encenderé con humo tus carros, y a tus leoncillos tragará espada; y raeré de la tierra tu robo, y nunca más se oirá voz de tus embajadores.
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].”
