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Nahum 2:7
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Nahum 2:7
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It is decreed
[a]
that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.
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Nahum 2:7 in Other Translations
KJV
7
And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.
ESV
7
its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
NLT
7
Nineveh’s exile has been decreed, and all the servant girls mourn its capture. They moan like doves and beat their breasts in sorrow.
MSG
7
Soon it's all over: Nineveh stripped, Nineveh doomed, Maids and slaves moaning like doves, beating their breasts.
CSB
7
Beauty is stripped, she is carried away; her ladies-in-waiting moan like the sound of doves, and beat their breasts.
Nahum 2:7 In-Context
5
Nineveh summons her picked troops, yet they stumble on their way. They dash to the city wall; the protective shield is put in place.
6
The river gates are thrown open and the palace collapses.
7
It is decreed that Nineveh be exiled and carried away. Her female slaves moan like doves and beat on their breasts.
8
Nineveh is like a pool whose water is draining away. “Stop! Stop!” they cry, but no one turns back.
9
Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! The supply is endless, the wealth from all its treasures!
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2
1.
S
Genesis 8:8
; S
Isaiah 59:11
2.
Isaiah 32:12
Footnotes
1
[a].
The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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