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Nahum 2:6

โ€œThe gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.โ€

Verse in context โ€” Nahum 2

4

The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.

5

He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.

6

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

7

It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

8

But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back.

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