American Standard Version
"And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts. "
— Nahum 2:7, American Standard Version
“And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.”
“It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.”
“Nineveh is taken into exile and is led away; her slave girls moan like doves while they beat their breasts.”
“And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.”
“And the queen is uncovered, she is taken away and her servant-girls are weeping like the sound of doves, hammering on their breasts.”
“And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.”
The chariots rage in the streets; they rush to and fro in the broad ways: the appearance of them is like torches; they run like the lightnings.
He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.
But Nineveh hath been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looketh back.
Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold; for there is no end of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
She is empty, and void, and waste; and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and anguish is in all loins, and the faces of them all are waxed pale.