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Nahum 3:10-18 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

10. Yet she also was removed and carried into captivity: her young children were dashed in pieces at the top of every street, and they cast lots upon her nobles, and all her great men were bound in fetters.

11. Therefore thou also shalt be made drunk, and shalt be despised: and thou shalt seek help from the enemy.

12. All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with their green figs: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

13. Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open to thy enemies, the fire shall devour thy bars.

14. Draw thee water for the siege, build up thy bulwarks: go into the clay, and tread, work it and make brick.

15. There shall the fire devour thee: thou shalt perish by the sword, it shall devour thee like the bruchus: assemble together like the bruchus, make thyself many like the locust.

16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchandises above the stars of heaven: the bruchus hath spread himself and flown away.

17. Thy guards are like the locusts: and thy little ones like the locusts of locusts which swarm on the hedges in the day of cold: the sun arose, and they flew away, and their place was not known where they were.

18. Thy shepherds have slumbered, O king of Assyria, thy princes shall be buried: thy people are hid in the mountains, and there is none to gather them together.

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