11 We all growl like bears
and moan like doves.(A)
We hope for justice, but there is none;
for salvation, but it is far from us.

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16 The survivors among them will escape(A)
and live on the mountains
like doves of the valley,
all of them moaning,
each over his own iniquity.

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Beauty[a] is stripped,[b]
she is carried away;
her ladies-in-waiting moan
like the sound of doves,(A)
and beat their breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:7 Text emended; MT reads Huzzab
  2. Nahum 2:7 Hb obscure

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