He remembers (A)his officers;
    (B)they stumble as they go,
they hasten to the wall;
    the siege tower[a] is set up.
(C)The river gates are opened;
    the palace (D)melts away;
its mistress[b] is (E)stripped;[c] she is carried off,
    her slave girls (F)lamenting,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:5 Or the mantelet
  2. Nahum 2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain
  3. Nahum 2:7 Or exiled

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