Nahum 2:8-10

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⁸Nineveh is like a pool
    whose waters^[a] run away.
“Halt! Halt!”—
    but no one turns back.
⁹“Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!”

¹⁰Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
Hearts faint and knees tremble,
all loins quake,
all faces grow pale!

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Nahum 2:8 Cn Compare Gk: Heb a pool, from the days that she has become, and they

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