10 [a]She is empty and void and waste, and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and sorrow is in all loins, and the faces [b]of them all gather blackness.

11 Where is the [c]dwelling of the lions, and the pasture of the lion’s whelps? where the lion and the lioness waked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid.

12 The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and worried for his lioness, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with spoil.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:10 That is, Nineveh, and the men thereof shall be after this sort.
  2. Nahum 2:10 Read Joel 2:6.
  3. Nahum 2:11 Meaning, Nineveh, whose inhabitants were cruel like the Lions, and given to all oppression, and spared no violence or tyranny to provide for their wives and children.

10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped!
    Hearts melt,(A) knees give way,
    bodies tremble, every face grows pale.(B)

11 Where now is the lions’ den,(C)
    the place where they fed their young,
where the lion and lioness went,
    and the cubs, with nothing to fear?
12 The lion killed(D) enough for his cubs
    and strangled the prey for his mate,
filling his lairs(E) with the kill
    and his dens with the prey.(F)

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