CLV(i)
1 The shatterer comes up to adjoin you. Preserve the siege work; watch the way. Make your waist steadfast; make your vigor exceedingly resolute.
2 For Yahweh has reversed the pomp of Jacob, as the pomp of Israel. For the voiders have voided them, and they ruin their pruned slips."
3 The shield of his masters shall be reddened; the mortals of valor are in crimson. With the fiery flash of hub-blades is the chariot, in the day of its preparation, and the horsemen are caused to shiver."
4 In the streets the chariots are raving; they are prowling in the squares. Their appearance is as torches of fire; as lightnings are they running.
5 He is remembering his nobles, yet they flee by day; they will stumble in their going; they will hasten to her wall, and their mantelet is prepared."
6 The sluice gates of the streams shall be opened, and the palace will be dissolved,
7 And it is set up that she will be deported. She will be brought up with her maidservants leading. As the sound of doves is the tambourining on their hearts.
8 Nineveh was as a reservoir of water from her days of old; now they are fleeing. Stand! Stand! Yet there is no one facing about.
9 Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! There is no end to her established treasures, the glory of all her coveted furnishings."
10 She is void and voided and evacuated:And the heart is melted, and a quavering of the knees, and a sore travail in all waists, and the faces of them all draw together in frustration."
11 Where is the habitation of the lions, and the feeding place, that of the sheltered lions, where the lion goes, the parent lion, and the whelp of the lioness, and nothing causes them to tremble?
12 The lion is tearing to pieces sufficient for his whelps, and is strangling for his parent lionesses. He is filling his holes with prey, and his habitations with flesh torn to pieces."
13 Behold Me against you, (averring is Yahweh of hosts); I consume her chariots in smoke, and your sheltered lions, the sword shall devour. I cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers is no longer heard."