| 1 | He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your loins! Fortify your power mightily! | Isa 14:6 Jer 25:9 Jer 50:23 Jer 51:20-23 |
| 2 | For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches. | Isa 10:5-12 Jer 25:29 |
| 3 | The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. | Isa 63:1-3 Zc 1:8 Zc 6:2 Rev 6:4 Rev 12:3 |
| 4 | The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. | Nah 3:2 Nah 3:3 Isa 37:24 Isa 66:15 Jer 4:13 Ezk 26:10 Dn 11:40 |
| 5 | He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. | Isa 21:5 Jer 50:29 Jer 51:27 Jer 51:28 |
| 6 | The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved. | Isa 45:1 Isa 45:2 |
| 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. | Isa 38:14 Isa 59:11 Lk 23:27 Lk 23:48 |
| 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. | Gn 10:11 |
| 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. | Isa 33:1 Isa 33:4 Jer 51:56 |
| 10 | She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. | Nah 3:7 Gn 1:2 Isa 13:19-22 Isa 14:23 Isa 24:1 Isa 34:10-15 Jer 4:23-26 Jer 51:62 Zep 2:13-15 Zep 3:6 Rev 18:21-23 |
| 11 | Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding-place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion`s cubs, and no one made them afraid? | Nah 3:1 Jb 4:10 Jb 4:11 Isa 5:29 Jer 2:15 Jer 4:7 Jer 50:17 Jer 50:44 Ezk 19:2-8 Zep 3:3 |
| 12 | The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey. | Ps 17:12 Isa 10:6-14 Jer 51:34 |
| 13 | "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Hosts, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard." | Nah 3:5 Jer 21:13 Jer 50:31 Jer 51:25 Ezk 5:8 Ezk 26:3 Ezk 28:22 Ezk 29:3 Ezk 29:10 Ezk 35:3 Ezk 38:3 Ezk 39:1 |
