Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE
New Revised Standard NRS
1 He is come up that shall destroy before thy face, that shall keep the siege: watch the way, fortify thy loins, strengthen thy power exceedingly.
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A shatterer has come up against you. Guard the ramparts; watch the road; gird your loins; collect all your strength.
2 For the Lord hath rendered the pride of Jacob, as the pride of Israel: because the spoilers have laid them waste, and have marred their vine branches.
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(For the Lord is restoring the majesty of Jacob, as well as the majesty of Israel, though ravagers have ravaged them and ruined their branches.)
3 The shield of his mighty men is like fire, the men of the army are clad in scarlet, the reins of the chariot are flaming in the day of his preparation, and the drivers are stupified.
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The shields of his warriors are red; his soldiers are clothed in crimson. The metal on the chariots flashes on the day when he musters them; the chargers prance.
4 They are in confusion in the ways, the chariots jostle one against another in the streets: their looks are like torches, like lightning running to and fro.
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The chariots race madly through the streets, they rush to and fro through the squares; their appearance is like torches, they dart like lightning.
5 He will muster up his valiant men, they shall stumble in their march: they shall quickly get upon the walls thereof: and a covering shall be prepared.
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He calls his officers; they stumble as they come forward; they hasten to the wall, and the mantelet is set up.
6 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.
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The river gates are opened, the palace trembles.
7 And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.
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It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.
8 And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool: but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back.
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Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. "Halt! Halt!"— but no one turns back.
9 Take ye the spoil of the silver, take the spoil of the gold: for there is no end of the riches of all the precious furniture.
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"Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of treasure! An abundance of every precious thing!"
10 She is destroyed, and rent, and torn: the heart melteth, and the knees fail, and all the loins lose their strength: and the faces of them all are as the blackness of a kettle.
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Devastation, desolation, and destruction! Hearts faint and knees tremble, all loins quake, all faces grow pale!
11 Where is now the dwelling of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, to which the lion went, to enter in thither, the young lion, and there was none to make them afraid?
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What became of the lions' den, the cave of the young lions, where the lion goes, and the lion's cubs, with no one to disturb them?
12 The lion caught enough for his whelps, and killed for his lionesses: and he filled his holes with prey, and his den with rapine.
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The lion has torn enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
13 Behold I come against thee, saith the Lord of hosts, and I will burn thy chariots even to smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey out of the land, and the voice of thy messengers shall be heard no more.
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See, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.
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