| English Standard Version | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1The scatterer has come up against you. Man the ramparts; watch the road; dress for battle; collect all your strength. | 1The one who scatters has come up against you. Man the fortress, watch the road; Strengthen your back, summon all your strength. |
| 2For the LORD is restoring the majesty of Jacob as the majesty of Israel, for plunderers have plundered them and ruined their branches. | 2For the LORD will restore the splendor of Jacob Like the splendor of Israel, Even though devastators have devastated them And destroyed their vine branches. |
| 3The shield of his mighty men is red; his soldiers are clothed in scarlet. The chariots come with flashing metal on the day he musters them; the cypress spears are brandished. | 3The shields of his mighty men are colored red, The warriors are dressed in scarlet, The chariots are enveloped in flashing steel When he is prepared to march, And the cypress spears are brandished. |
| 4The chariots race madly through the streets; they rush to and fro through the squares; they gleam like torches; they dart like lightning. | 4The chariots race madly in the streets, They rush wildly in the squares, Their appearance is like torches, They dash to and fro like lightning flashes. |
| 5He remembers his officers; they stumble as they go, they hasten to the wall; the siege tower is set up. | 5He remembers his nobles; They stumble in their march, They hurry to her wall, And the mantelet is set up. |
| 6The river gates are opened; the palace melts away; | 6The gates of the rivers are opened And the palace is dissolved. |
| 7its mistress is stripped; she is carried off, her slave girls lamenting, moaning like doves and beating their breasts. | 7It is fixed: She is stripped, she is carried away, And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves, Beating on their breasts. |
| 8Nineveh is like a pool whose waters run away. “Halt! Halt!” they cry, but none turns back. | 8Though Nineveh was like a pool of water throughout her days, Now they are fleeing; "Stop, stop," But no one turns back. |
| 9Plunder the silver, plunder the gold! There is no end of the treasure or of the wealth of all precious things. | 9Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold! For there is no limit to the treasure-- Wealth from every kind of desirable object. |
| 10Desolate! Desolation and ruin! Hearts melt and knees tremble; anguish is in all loins; all faces grow pale! | 10She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and waste! Hearts are melting and knees knocking! Also anguish is in the whole body And all their faces are grown pale! |
| 11Where is the lions’ den, the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and lioness went, where his cubs were, with none to disturb? | 11Where is the den of the lions And the feeding place of the young lions, Where the lion, lioness and lion's cub prowled, With nothing to disturb them? |
| 12The lion tore enough for his cubs and strangled prey for his lionesses; he filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh. | 12The lion tore enough for his cubs, Killed enough for his lionesses, And filled his lairs with prey And his dens with torn flesh. |
| 13Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no longer be heard. | 13"Behold, I am against you," declares the LORD of hosts. "I will burn up her chariots in smoke, a sword will devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the land, and no longer will the voice of your messengers be heard." |
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