10 She is (A)emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste!
(B)Hearts are melting and knees knocking!
Also anguish is in [a]the whole body
And all their (C)faces are grown pale!
11 Where is the den of the lions
And the feeding place of the (D)young lions,
Where the lion, lioness and lion’s cub prowled,
With nothing to disturb them?
12 The lion tore enough for his cubs,
[b]Killed enough for his lionesses,
And filled his lairs with prey
And his dens with torn flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:10 Lit all the loin
  2. Nahum 2:12 Lit Strangled

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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