Nahum 2
1 Subió destruidor contra ti; guarda la fortaleza, mira el camino, fortifica los lomos, fortalece mucho la fuerza.
A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
2 Porque el SEÑOR restituirá la gloria de Jacob como la gloria de Israel; porque vaciadores los vaciaron, y estropearon sus mugrones.
For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
3 El escudo de sus valientes será bermejo, los varones de su ejército vestidos de grana; el carro como fuego de antorchas; el día que se aparejará, temblarán las hayas.
The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
4 Los carros harán locuras en las plazas, discurrirán por las calles; sus rostros como antorchas; correrán como relámpagos.
The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
5 El se acordará de sus valientes; andando tropezarán cuando se apresurarán a su muro, y la cubierta se aparejare.
He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
6 Las puertas de los ríos se abrirán, y el palacio será destruido.
The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
7 Y la reina será cautiva; le mandarán que suba, y sus criadas la llevarán, gimiendo como palomas, batiendo sus pechos.
And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
8 Y fue Nínive de tiempo antiguo como estanque de aguas; mas ellos ahora huyen. Parad, parad gritarán; y ninguno mira atrás.
But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
9 Saquead plata, saquead oro; no hay fin de las riquezas; honra, más que todo ajuar de codicia.
Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
10 Vacía, y agotada, y despedazada está, y el corazón derretido; batimiento de rodillas, y dolor en los riñones, y los rostros de todos tomarán negrura.
Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
11 ¿Qué es de la morada de los leones, y de la majada de los cachorros de los leones, donde se recogía el león, y la leona, y los cachorros del león, y no había quien les pusiese miedo?
Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
12 El león arrebataba en abundancia para sus cachorros, y ahogaba para sus leonas, y henchía de presa sus cavernas, y de robo sus moradas.
Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.
13 He aquí, Yo hablo a ti, dice el SEÑOR de los ejércitos. Encenderé y reduciré a humo tus carros, y espada devorará tus leoncillos; y raeré de la tierra tu robo, y nunca más se oirá voz de tus embajadores.
See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your war-carriages burned in the smoke, and your young lions will be food for the sword: you will no longer get your food by force on the earth, and the voice of your she-lions will be stopped for ever.
