2 Your enemy is coming to crush you, Nineveh. Prepare your defenses! Call out your forces! 2 Even though the destroyer has destroyed Judah, but he will restore its splendor. 3 Shields flash red in the sunlight! with a forest of spears waving above them. 4 The chariots race recklessly along the streets and move as swiftly as lightning. 5 The king shouts to his officers; rushing to the walls to set up their defenses. 6 The river gates have been torn open! The palace is about to collapse! 7 Nineveh’s exile has been decreed, and beat their breasts in sorrow. 8 Nineveh is like a leaking water reservoir! but no one even looks back. 9 Loot the silver! its vast, uncounted wealth. 10 Soon the city is plundered, empty, and ruined. their faces pale and trembling. 11 Where now is that great Nineveh, walked freely and without fear. 12 The lion tore up meat for his cubs his caverns with his plunder. 13 “I am your enemy!” The voices of your proud messengers will be heard no more.”