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She is stripped and is led away.
    Her slave girls moan like doves
    while they beat their breasts.[a]

Nineveh[b] was like a pool of water from her beginning,[c]
    but now her people are running away.
    She cries out, “Stop! Stop!” but no one turns back.

Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!
    There is no end to the treasure.
    There are riches of every kind of precious thing.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 A gesture of mourning
  2. Nahum 2:8 The name of the city is now introduced for the first time in the oracle itself.
  3. Nahum 2:8 The meaning of the last phrase is uncertain.