The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall melt.

And Huzzab the Queen shall be led away captive, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, smiting upon their breasts.

But Nineveh is [a]of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry: but none shall look back.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:8 The Assyrians will flatter themselves and say, that Nineveh is so ancient that it can never perish, and is as a fishpool, whose waters they that walk on the banks cannot touch, but they shall be scattered, and shall not look back though men would call them.

The river gates(A) are thrown open
    and the palace collapses.
It is decreed[a] that Nineveh
    be exiled and carried away.
Her female slaves moan(B) like doves
    and beat on their breasts.(C)
Nineveh is like a pool
    whose water is draining away.
“Stop! Stop!” they cry,
    but no one turns back.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.