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Everyone's heart melts
Nahum speaks of the people losing courage as if their hearts melt like wax. Alternate translation: "Everyone loses courage" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metaphor)
everyone's knees strike together
This describes a physical response to great fear. The people's legs shake so badly that their knees knock together and they are unable to walk or run.
anguish is in all loins
The loins are either 1) a synecdoche for the whole person. Alternate translation: "everyone is in anguish" Or 2) a metonym for the internal organs, and you should describe them using your language's words for how a person's stomach feels when he is very frightened. Alternate translation: "everyone's stomachs are churning" (See: rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-synecdoche)