its mistress[a] is (A)stripped;[b] she is carried off,
    her slave girls (B)lamenting,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.
(C)Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters run away.[c]
“Halt! Halt!” they cry,
    but (D)none turns back.
Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of the treasure
    or of the wealth of all precious things.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain
  2. Nahum 2:7 Or exiled
  3. Nahum 2:8 Compare Septuagint; the meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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