Nahum 2:5-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵An officer gives a command.
But his soldiers stumble,
as they hasten to build
a shelter to protect themselves
against rocks thrown down
from the city wall.^[a]

⁶The river gates^[b] fly open,
    and panic floods the palace.
⁷Nineveh is disgraced.
    The queen is dragged off.
Her servant women mourn;
    they moan like doves,
and they beat their breasts
    in sorrow.^[c]

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Footnotes

2.5 to build … city wall: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
2.6 river gates: Nineveh was protected by a moat filled with water from the nearby Tigris River.
2.7 sorrow: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 7.