Nahum 2:1-10

2¹ See on the mountains the feet of him who comes with good news, giving word of peace! Keep your feasts, O Judah, give effect to your oaths: for the good-for-nothing man will never again go through you; he is completely cut off. ² A crusher has come up before your face: keep a good look-out, let the way be watched, make yourself strong, let your power be greatly increased. ³ For the Lord will make good the vine of Jacob, as well as the vine of Israel: for the wasters have made them waste and sent destruction on the branches of their vine. ⁴ The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking. ⁵ The war-carriages are rushing through the streets, pushing against one another in the wide ways, looking like burning lights, running like thunder-flames. ⁶ He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready. ⁷ The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away. ⁸ And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts. ⁹ But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back. ¹⁰ Take silver, take gold; for there is no end to the store; take for yourselves a weight of things to be desired.