1:11 From you, O Nineveh,
a wicked military strategist.
2:8 Nineveh was like a pool
but now
she cries out:
but no one turns back.
3:18 Your shepherds
Your officers
Your people are scattered like sheep
and there is no one to regather them!
3:17 Your courtiers
your officials
They encamp in the walls on a cold day,
yet when the sun rises, they
and no one knows where they
2:4 The chariots
they rush back and forth
they look
they dash here and there
2:11 Where now is the den of the lions,
the feeding place
where
and no one disturbed them?
1:15 (2:1)
A messenger is proclaiming deliverance:
“Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah!
Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God!
For never again
they
1:6 No one can withstand
No one can resist
His wrath is poured out like volcanic fire,
boulders are broken up
3:7 Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;
they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated!
Who will lament for her?’
There will be no one to comfort you!”
1:9 Whatever
Distress
2:1 (2:2) The watchmen of Nineveh shout:
“An enemy who will scatter you
“Guard
Watch the road!
Prepare yourselves for battle!
Muster your mighty strength!”
3:4 “Because
a seductive mistress who practices sorcery,
who
and entices peoples by her sorcery
3:19 Your destruction is like an incurable wound;
your demise is like a fatal injury!
All who hear what has happened to you
for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!