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1
|Nahum 2:1|
A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased.
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2
|Nahum 2:2|
For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine.
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3
|Nahum 2:3|
The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.
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4
|Nahum 2:4|
The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames.
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5
|Nahum 2:5|
He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.
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6
|Nahum 2:6|
The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.
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7
|Nahum 2:7|
And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.
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8
|Nahum 2:8|
But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.
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9
|Nahum 2:9|
Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.
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10
|Nahum 2:10|
Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
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Sugerencias
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