(Nahum
2)
An attacker advances
against you, Nineveh, Guard the fortress,
Watch the road,
brace yourselves, marshal all your strength!
2 The Lord will
restore the splendor of Jacob like the splendor of Israel,
Though destroyers
have laid them waste and have ruined their vines.
3 The shields of his
soldiers are red;
The warriors are
clad in scarlet.
The metal on the
chariots flashes on the day they are made ready;
The spears of pine
are brandished.
4 The chariots storm
through the streets
Rushing back and
forth through the squares.
They look like
flaming torches;
They dart about like
lightning.
5 He summons his
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
the city be exiled and carried away.
Its slave girls moan
like doves and beat upon their breasts.
8
Nineveh (Babylon)
is like a pool, and its 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!
10 She is pillaged,
plundered, stripped!
Hearts melt, knees
give way, bodies tremble, every face grows pale.
11 Where now is the
lions' den, the place where they fed their young,
Where the lion and
lioness went,
And the cubs, with
nothing to fear?
12 The lion killed
enough for his cubs and strangled the prey for his mate,
Filling the lairs
with the kill and his dens with the prey.
13 'I am against
you,' declares the Lord Almighty.
'I will burn up your
chariots in smoke,
And the sword will
devour your young lions.
I will leave you no
prey on the earth.
The voices of your
messengers will not longer be heard.'
(Nahum
2)
As
surely as Nineveh Fell in the days of Nahum,
So,
today, Babylon, the World System, and the City,
The
bride of Satan, will Fall,
Exactly
as Scripture has foretold.
(Revelation
18)
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