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Nahum 2

He describeth the victories of the Caldeans against the Assyrians.
1.aThe destroyer is come before thy face: keep thy munition, look to the way: make thy loins strong: increase thy strength mightly.
2.For the Lord hath bturned away the glorie of Jaakób, as the glorie of Israél: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and cmarred their vine branches.
3.The shield of his mightie men is made red: dthe valiant men are in scarlet: the charets shalbe as in the fire and flames in the day of his preparation, and ethe fir trees shal tremble.
4.The charets shal rage in the streets: they shal run to and fro in the hie ways: they shal seem like lamps: they shal shoot like the lightening.
5.fHe shal remember his strong men: they shal stumble as they go: they shal make haste to the walls thereof, and the defence shalbe prepared.
6.The gates of the rivers shalbe opened, & the palace shal melt.
7.And Huzzáb the Queen shalbe led away captive, and her maids shal lead her as with the voice of doves, smiting upon their breasts.
8.But Nineveh is gof old like a pool of water: yet they shal flee away. Stand, stand, shal they cry: but none shal look back.
9.hSpoil ye the silver, spoil the gold: for there is none end of the store, and glorie of all the pleasant vessels.
10.iShe is empty and void and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorrow is in all loins, and the faces kof them all gather blackness.
11.Where is the ldwelling of the lyons, and the pasture of the lyon’s whelps? where the lyon, and the lyonesse walked, and the lyon’s whelp, and none made them afraid.
12.The lyon did tear in pieces ynough for his whelps, and worried for his lyonesse, & filled his holes with prey, & his dens with spoil.
13.Behold, I come unto thee, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will burn her charets in the msmoke, and the sword shal devour thy yong lyons, and I will cut off thy spoil from the earth, and the voice of thy nmessengers shal no more be heard.

Notes

1-a.
That is, Nebuchad-nezzar is in a readiness to destroy the Assyrians: and the Prophet derides the enterprises of the Assyrians which prepare to resist him.
2-b.
Seeing God has punished his own people Judah and Israel, he will now punish the enemies by whom he scourged them, read Is. 10.12.
2-c.
Signifying, that the Israelites were utterly destroyed.
3-d.
Both to fear the enemy, and also that they themselves should not so soon espy blood one of another to discourage them.
3-e.
Meaning, their spears should shake and crash together.
5-f.
Then the Assyrians shall seek by all means to gather their power, but all things shall fail them.
8-g.
The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say, that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fish pool, whose waters they that walk on the banks can not touch, but they shall be scattered, and shal not look back though men would call them.
9-h.
God commands the enemies to spoil Nineveh, and promises them infinite riches, and treasures.
10-i.
That is, Nineveh, and the men thereof shall be after this sort.
10-k.
Read, Joel 2.6.
11-l.
Meaning Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the lion and given to all oppression and spared no violence or tyranny to provide for their wives, and children.
13-m.
That is, assoon as my wrath begins to kindle.
13-n.
Signifying, the heralds, which were accustom to proclaim war. Some read of your gum teeth wherewith Nineveh was want to bruise the bones of the poor.