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Plunder the silver! Plunder the gold!
    There is no end to the spoils,[a]
        an abundance of everything one could want![b]
10 Emptiness and plundering and devastation!
    Their hearts faint and their knees tremble,[c]
        All their loins shake[d] and all their faces turn[e] pale.

The Divine Warrior Will Hunt down the Mighty Lions

11 Where now is the den of the lions
    and the cave of the fierce lions?
There the lioness, the cub, and the lion once prowled,[f]
    and no one disturbed them.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:9 Literally “the supply”
  2. Nahum 2:9 Literally “every kind of desirable object”
  3. Nahum 2:10 Or “totter”
  4. Nahum 2:10 Literally “And shaking of all loins”
  5. Nahum 2:10 Literally “gather”
  6. Nahum 2:11 Literally “went”
  7. Nahum 2:11 Literally “there is no one making them afraid”