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| [1]The destroyer is come before thy face: keep the munition: look to the way: make thy loins strong: increase thy strength mightily. |
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| [2]For the Lord hath turned away the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. |
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| [3]The shield of his mighty men is made red: the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall tremble. |
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| [4]The chariots shall rage in the streets: they shall run to and fro in the highways: they shall seem like lamps: they shall shoot like the lightning. |
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| [5]He shall remember his strong men: they shall stumble as they go: they shall make haste to the walls thereof, and the defense shall be prepared. |
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| [6]The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall melt. |
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| [7]And Huzzab the queen shall be led away captive, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, smiting upon their breasts. |
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| [8]But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry: but none shall look back. |
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| [9]Spoil ye the silver, spoil the gold: for there is none end of the store, and glory of all the pleasant vessels. |
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| [10]She is empty and void and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorrow is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. |
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| [11]Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the pasture of the lion's whelps? Where the lion, and the lioness walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid. |
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| [12]The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and worried for his lioness, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with, spoil. |
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| [13]Behold, I come unto thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions, and I will cut off thy spoil from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. |
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