Nahum 2

1You people of [APO] Nineveh, your enemies are coming to attack you. So place guards on the tops of the walls around the city! the roads into the city! to fight! your troops/soldiers [MTY] together! 2Even though enemy soldiers have destroyed the descendants of [MTY] Jacob, Yahweh will cause them to be honored again. is like a grapevine that has been ruined, but Israel will prosper again. 3The shields of the enemy soldiers who are coming to attack you will shine red as the sun shines on them, and they will wear bright red uniforms. The metal of their chariot wheels will flash when they line up before the battle, and their soldiers will lift up their cypress/pine spears and wave them. 4Their chariots will dash through the streets of Nineveh and rush furiously through the plazas. as quick as lightning, they will resemble flaming torches. 5Meanwhile, your king will summon his officers who will stumble as they try to come quickly. They will dash to the city wall, their shields to protect themselves. 6But, the gates of the dams on the rivers will be thrown open by enemy soldiers, and the flood will cause the palace to collapse. 7The queen will have her clothes stripped off her by enemy soldiers, and her slave girls will moan like doves and beat their breasts to show that they are very sad. 8The people will rush from Nineveh like [SIM] water rushes from a broken dam. The officials will shout, “Stop! Stop!” but the people will not even look back as they run away. 9The enemy attackers say to each other, “Seize the silver! the gold! There is a huge amount of very valuable things in this city, things than anyone can count!” 10Soon everything valuable in the city will be seized or ruined. will be trembling, with the result that they will not be able to fight. Their faces will all become pale. 11After that happens, people will say, to [RHQ] that great city of Nineveh? It was like [MET] a den full of young lions, the male and female lions lived and fed the young ones. 12The soldiers in Nineveh were like [MET] lions that killed or strangled other animals and brought the meat to their dens.”