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‘Plunder the silver,
    plunder the gold!
There is no end of treasure!
    An abundance of every precious thing!’

10 Devastation, desolation, and destruction!
    Hearts faint and knees tremble,
all loins quake,
    all faces grow pale!
11 What became of the lions’ den,
    the cave[a] of the young lions,
where the lion goes,
    and the lion’s cubs, with no one to disturb them?

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 2:11 Cn: Heb pasture

Plunder the silver!
    Plunder the gold!
The supply is endless,
    the wealth from all its treasures!
10 She is pillaged, plundered, stripped!
    Hearts melt,(A) knees give way,
    bodies tremble, every face grows pale.(B)

11 Where now is the lions’ den,(C)
    the place where they fed their young,
where the lion and lioness went,
    and the cubs, with nothing to fear?

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