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He calls his officers;
    they stumble as they come forward;
they hasten to the wall,
    and the mantelet[a] is set up.
The river gates are opened,
    the palace trembles.
It is decreed[b] that the city[c] be exiled,
    its slave women led away,
moaning like doves
    and beating their breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  2. Nahum 2:7 Meaning of Heb uncertain
  3. Nahum 2:7 Heb it

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