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Nahum 2:7

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

Verse in context โ€” Nahum 2

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.

9

Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.

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Godโ€™s justice in the fall of Nineveh.

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