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2:1 |
He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make loins strong, fortify power mightily. |
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2:2 |
For the LORD hath turned away the excellence of Jacob, as the excellence of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches. |
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2:3 |
The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men in scarlet: the chariots with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir-trees shall be terribly shaken. |
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2:4 |
The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings. |
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2:5 |
He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared. |
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2:6 |
The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved. |
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2:7 |
And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts. |
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2:8 |
But Nineveh of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, ; but none shall look back. |
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2:9 |
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for no end of the store glory out of all the pleasant furniture. |
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2:10 |
She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness. |
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2:11 |
Where the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion, the old lion, walked, the lion's whelp, and none made afraid? |
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2:12 |
The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. |
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2:13 |
Behold, I against 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 prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard. |
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