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Nahum 2:7

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And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

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Nahum 2:7 in other translations

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

Nahum 2:7 · World English Bible

Nahum 2:7 in context

  1. 5He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
  2. 6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
  3. 7And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
  4. 8But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
  5. 9Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.