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\id NAM Unlocked Literal Bible
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\h Nahum
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\toc1 The Book of Nahum
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\toc2 Nahum
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\toc3 Nam
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\mt Nahum
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\s5
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\c 1
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\p
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\v 1 The declaration about Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum, the Elkoshite.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 2 Yahweh is a jealous God and avenges;
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\q2 Yahweh avenges and is full of wrath;
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\q Yahweh takes vengeance on his adversaries,
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\q2 and he continues his anger for his enemies.
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\q
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\v 3 Yahweh is slow to anger and great in power;
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\q2 he will not acquit the wicked.
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\q Yahweh makes his way in the whirlwind and the storm,
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\q2 and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
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\q2 he dries up all the rivers.
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\q Bashan is weak, and Carmel also;
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\q2 the flowers of Lebanon have become weak.
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\q
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\v 5 The mountains shake in his presence,
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\q2 and the hills melt;
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\q the earth collapses in his presence, indeed,
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\q2 the world and all people who live in it.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 Who can stand before his rage?
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\q2 Who can resist the fierceness of his anger?
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\q His wrath is poured out like fire,
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\q2 and the rocks are broken apart by him.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 7 Yahweh is good,
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\q2 a stronghold in the day of trouble;
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\q2 and he acknowledges those who take refuge in him.
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\q
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\v 8 But he will make a full end to his enemies
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\q2 with an overwhelming flood;
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\q2 he will pursue them into darkness.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 9 What are you people plotting against Yahweh?
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\q2 He will make a full end to it;
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\q2 trouble will not rise up a second time.
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\q
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\v 10 Like tangled thorns
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\q2 and like the drink of drunkards,
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\q2 they will be consumed like dry stubble.
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\q
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\v 11 From you, Nineveh, has come out
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\q2 someone who plotted evil against Yahweh,
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\q2 a wicked counselor.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 This is what Yahweh says,
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\b
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\q "Even if they are at their full strength and full numbers,
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\q2 they will nevertheless be sheared; their people will pass away.
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\q But you, Judah: Though I have afflicted you
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\q2, I will afflict you no more.
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\q
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\v 13 Now will I break that people's yoke from off you;
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\q2 I will break your chains."
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Yahweh has given a command about you, Nineveh:
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\q2 "There will be no more descendants bearing your name.
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\q I will cut off the carved images and the cast metal figures
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\q2 from the houses of your gods.
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\q I will prepare your grave,
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\q2 for you are contemptible."
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 15 Look, on the mountains
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\q2 there are the feet of someone who is bringing good news,
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\q2 who is announcing peace!
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\q Celebrate your festivals, Judah,
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\q2 and fulfill your vows,
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\q for the wicked one will invade you no more;
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\q2 he is completely cut off.
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\b
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\s5
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\c 2
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 The one who scatters is coming up against you.
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\q2 Guard the city wall,
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\q2 watch the road,
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\q2 strengthen your loins,
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\q2 pull together all your strength.
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\q
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\v 2 For Yahweh is restoring the majesty of Jacob
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\q2, like the majesty of Israel,
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\q although the plunderers devastated them
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\q2 and destroyed their vine branches.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 The shields of his mighty men are red,
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\q2 and the soldiers are clothed in scarlet;
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\q the chariots flash with their metal
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\q2 on the day that they are made ready,
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\q2 and the cypress spears are waved in the air.
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\q
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\v 4 The chariots speed through the streets;
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\q2 they rush back and forth in the wide streets.
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\q They look like torches,
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\q2 and they run like lightning.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 He remembers his nobles;
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\q2 they stumble over each other in their march;
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\q they hurry to attack the city wall.
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\q2 The large shield is made ready to protect these attackers.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 6 The gates at the rivers are forced open,
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\q2 and the palace collapses.
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\q
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\v 7 Huzzab is stripped
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\q2 and is taken away;
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\q her female servants moan like doves,
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\q2 beating on their breasts.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Nineveh is like a leaking pool of water,
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\q2 with its people fleeing away like rushing water.
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\q Others shout, "Stop, stop,"
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\q2 but no one turns back.
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\q
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\v 9 Take the silver plunder,
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\q2 take the gold plunder,
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\q2 for there is no end to the treasure,
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\q2 to the splendor of all Nineveh's desirable things.
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\q
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\v 10 Nineveh is empty; empty and devastated.
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\q2 Everyone's heart melts, everyone's knees strike together,
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\q2 and anguish is in all loins; their faces are all pale.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 11 Where now is the lions' den,
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\q2 the place where the young lion cubs were fed,
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\q the place where the lion and lioness walked,
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\q2 with the cubs, where they were afraid of nothing?
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\q
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\v 12 The lion tore his victims to pieces for his cubs;
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\q2 he strangled victims for his lionesses,
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\q and filled his cave with victims,
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\q2 his dens with torn carcasses.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 13 "See, I am against you—
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\q2 this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts.
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\q I will burn your chariots in the smoke,
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\q2 and the sword will devour your young lions.
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\q I will cut off your prey from your land,
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\q2 and the voices of your messengers will be heard no more."
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\s5
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\c 3
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\m
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\q
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\v 1 Woe to the city full of blood!
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\q2 It is all full of lies and stolen property;
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\q2 victims are always in her.
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\q
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\v 2 But now there is the noise of whips
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\q2 and the sound of rattling wheels,
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\q2 prancing horses,
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\q2 and bounding chariots.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 3 Horsemen charging,
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\q2 flashing swords
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\q2 and glittering spears!
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\q Piles of the dead, bodies that could not be counted—
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\q2 their attackers stumble over the bodies.
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\q
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\v 4 This is happening because of the lustful actions
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\q2 of the beautiful prostitute, the expert in witchcraft,
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\q who sells nations through her prostitution,
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\q2 and peoples through her acts of witchcraft.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 5 "See, I am against you—
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\q2this is the declaration of Yahweh of hosts—
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\q2I will raise up your skirt over your face
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\q and show your private parts to the nations,
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\q2 your shame to the kingdoms.
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\q
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\v 6 I will throw disgusting filth on you
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\q2 and make you vile;
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\q2 I will set you up as a spectacle.
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\q
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\v 7 It will come about that everyone who looks at you
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\q2 will flee from you and say,
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\q2 'Nineveh is destroyed; who will weep for her?'
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\q2 Where can I go to find anyone to comfort you?"
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 8 Nineveh, are you better than Thebes,
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\q2 which was located on the Nile River,
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\q2 which had water around her,
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\q whose rampart was the sea,
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\q2 and the sea was its wall?
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\q
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\v 9 Cush and Egypt were her strength,
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\q2 and there was no end to it;
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\q2 Put and Libya were allies to her.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 10 Yet Thebes was carried away;
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\q2 she went into captivity;
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\q her young children were dashed in pieces
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\q2 at the head of every street;
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\q her enemies threw lots for her honorable men,
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\q2 and all her great men were bound in chains.
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\q
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\v 11 You also will become drunk;
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\q2 you will try to hide,
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\q2 and you also will look for a refuge from your enemy.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees
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\q2 with the earliest ripe figs:
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\q if they are shaken,
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\q2 they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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\q
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\v 13 See, the people among you are women;
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\q the gates of your land
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\q2 have been opened wide to your enemies;
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\q2 fire has devoured their bars.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 14 Go draw water for the siege;
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\q2 strengthen your fortresses;
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\q go into the clay
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\q2 and tread the mortar;
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\q2 pick up the molds for the bricks.
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\q
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\v 15 Fire will devour you there,
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\q2 and the sword will destroy you.
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\q2 It will devour you as young locusts devour everything.
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\p
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\q Make yourselves as many as the young locusts,
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\q2 as many as the full-grown locusts.
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\s5
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\q
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\v 16 You have multiplied your merchants
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\q2 more than the stars in the heavens;
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\q but they are like young locusts:
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\q2 they plunder the land and then fly away.
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\q
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\v 17 Your princes are like locust swarms,
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\q2 and your commanders are like locusts
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\q2 that camp in the walls on a cold day.
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\q But when the sun rises they flee,
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\q2 and the place they go to is not known.
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\b
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\s5
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\q
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\v 18 King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep;
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\q2 your nobles are lying down resting.
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\q Your people are scattered on the mountains,
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\q2 and there is no one to gather them.
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\q
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\v 19 No healing is possible for your wounds.
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\q2 Your wounds are severe.
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\q Everyone who hears the news about you
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\q2 will clap their hands in joy over you.
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\q On whom has your wickedness
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\q2 not trodden continually?
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