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10 Desolate! Desolation and ruin!
    Hearts faint and knees tremble,
anguish is on all loins,
    all faces grow pale!
11 Where is the lions’ den,
    the cave[a] of the young lions,
where the lion brought his prey,
    where his cubs were, with none to disturb?
12 The lion tore enough for his whelps
    and strangled prey for his lionesses;
he filled his caves with prey
    and his dens with torn flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:11 Cn: Heb pasture

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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