1He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

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Joel 3:9, Joel 3:11, Joel 3:9, Joel 3:11, 2 Chronicles 25:8

2For the Lord restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.

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Psalms 80:12, Psalms 80:13, Psalms 80:12, Psalms 80:13, Zephaniah 3:11

3The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.

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Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:15, Ezekiel 23:14, Ezekiel 23:15, Isaiah 63:1

4The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

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Jeremiah 4:13, Jeremiah 4:13, Isaiah 66:15, Nahum 3:2, Nahum 3:3

5He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

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Jeremiah 46:12, Jeremiah 46:12, Nahum 3:18, Jeremiah 51:27, Jeremiah 51:28

6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

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Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2, Isaiah 45:1, Isaiah 45:2, 2 Peter 3:10

7It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

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Isaiah 38:14, Isaiah 59:11, Isaiah 38:14, Isaiah 59:11, Luke 23:48

8But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.

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Genesis 10:11, Revelation 17:15, Isaiah 48:20, Revelation 17:1, Jeremiah 51:30

9Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

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Isaiah 33:4, Ezekiel 26:12, 2 Chronicles 36:10, Jeremiah 25:34, Daniel 11:8

10She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.

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Psalms 22:14, Psalms 22:14, Joel 2:6, Daniel 5:6, Joel 2:6

11Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?

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Isaiah 5:29, Isaiah 5:29, Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 2:15, Jeremiah 50:44

12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.

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Jeremiah 51:34, Jeremiah 51:34, Psalms 17:12, Isaiah 10:6, Isaiah 10:14

13"Behold, I am against you," says the Lord of hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

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Psalms 46:9, Nahum 3:5, Jeremiah 21:13, Psalms 46:9, Nahum 3:5