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Nahum 2:4

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4 Les chars roulent avec furie dans les rues; ils se précipitent dans les places; à les voir ils sont comme des flambeaux, ils courent comme des éclairs!

Nahum 2:4 Meaning and Commentary

Nahum 2:4

The chariots shall rage in the streets
In the streets of Nineveh when taken; where they shall be drove in a furious manner from place to place, the men in them breathing out slaughter and death wherever they came. Kimchi understands this of the chariots of the Ninevites; who shall drive about in them in the streets of the city like madmen; not daring to go out to fight the enemy, being mightier and more numerous than they. They shall justle one against another in the broad ways;
because of their numbers, and the haste they shall make to spoil and plunder the city; or the Ninevites shall justle one against another, in their hurry and confusion to make their escape. They shall seem like torches;
either the chariots of the Medes and Chaldeans, for the reasons given in the preceding verse ( Nahum 2:3 ) ; or they themselves, because of their fierceness and cruelty; or the faces of the Ninevites, being covered with shame, so Kimchi; see ( Isaiah 13:8 ) . They shall run like the lightnings;
exceeding swiftly, with irresistible force and power; the above writer interprets this of the Ninevites also, running from one end of their city to the other in the utmost confusion, not knowing what to do; but the whole of these two verses ( Nahum 2:3 Nahum 2:4 ) seem to be a description of their enemies.

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Nahum 2:4 In-Context

2 Car l'Éternel rétablit la gloire de Jacob comme la gloire d'Israël, parce que les pillards les ont pillés et qu'ils ont ravagé leurs vignes.
3 Le bouclier de ses hommes vaillants est rouge; les guerriers sont vêtus d'écarlate; l'acier des chars étincelle, au jour où il se prépare, et les lances sont agitées.
4 Les chars roulent avec furie dans les rues; ils se précipitent dans les places; à les voir ils sont comme des flambeaux, ils courent comme des éclairs!
5 Le roi de Ninive se souvient de ses hommes vaillants; mais ils chancellent dans leur marche. Ils se hâtent vers la muraille, la défense est préparée.
6 Les portes des fleuves sont ouvertes, et le palais s'écroule!
The Ostervald translation is in the public domain.

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