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The Futility of Nineveh's Defenses
Nahum 3:11-17
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You too, [Ninveh,] will be drunk; your senses completely overcome. You too will seek a refuge from the enemy.
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All your fortifications will be like fig trees with early ripening figs; the moment they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Look at your troops! They behave like women! Your country's gates are wide open to your foes; fire has consumed their bars.
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Draw water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go down in the clay, tread the mortar, Take hold of the mold for bricks!
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There the fire will burn you up; and the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like grasshoppers. Make yourselves as many as grasshoppers, Make yourselves as many as locusts!
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You had more merchants than stars in the sky. The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
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Your guards are like grasshoppers, your marshals like swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away; they vanish to no one knows where.
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