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Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters[a] run away.
‘Halt! Halt!’—
    but no one turns back.
‘Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!’

10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
    Hearts faint and knees tremble,
all loins quake,
    all faces grow pale!

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:8 Cn Compare Gk: Heb a pool, from the days that she has become, and they

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