1The ravager cometh up against thee, [O Nineveh!] Guard the fortress; watch the way; Gird up the loins; confirm the strength.

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

2For Jehovah restoreth the glory of Jacob, As the glory of Israel; For the wasters have wasted them, And destroyed their branches.

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

3The shields of his mighty men are red; His warriors are clothed in crimson; His chariots glitter with the fire of steel in the day of his preparation, And the spears are brandished.

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

4The chariots rave in the streets; They run to and fro in the broad ways; Their appearance is like torches; They run like lightnings.

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

5He calleth for his mighty men; They stumble on their way; They hasten to the wall; But the mantelet is prepared,

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

6The gates of rivers are opened, And the palace melteth away.

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

7Huzzab is uncovered; she is carried away captive, Her maidservants sigh with the voice of doves, And smite their breasts.

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

8Nineveh was like a pool full of water of old; Yet shall they flee away; Stand! stand! shall they cry; But none shall look back.

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

9Seize the silver; seize the gold; There is no end to the treasures; There is abundance of all precious furniture.

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

10She hath become void, and empty, and desolate; The heart melteth, and the knees smite together; Pangs are in all their loins, And the faces of all gather blackness.

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

11Where now is the dwelling of the lions, And the feeding-place of the young lions, Where the lion and the lioness walked, And the lion’s whelp, and none 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 for his whelps, And strangled for his lionesses, And filled his dens with prey, And his lairs with ravin.

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

13Behold! I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, And I will burn thy chariots into smoke, And the sword shall devour thy young lions. And I will cut off thy prey from the earth, And the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.

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