Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings good tidings, that announces peace! O Yehuda, keep thy feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked one shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

The batterer is come up against thee: guard the ramparts, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

For the Lord restores the pride of Ya῾aqov, like the pride of Yisra᾽el: for plunderers have stripped them, and marred their vine branches.

The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots glitter with steel in the day of his preparation, and the spears of cypress wood are brandished.

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the squares: they seem like torches, they run to and fro like lightnings.

He remembers his valiant men: they stumble in their walk; they make haste to its wall, and the screen is prepared.

The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

It is set up; she is uncovered; she is carried away; and her maidens moan as with the voice of doves, drumming on their breasts.

But Nineve is like a pool of water long established: yet they flee away. Halt, halt, they cry; but none turns back.

Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is no end of the store: there is an abundance of all precious vessels.

She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melts, and the knees knock together, and there is trembling in all loins, and the faces of them all are covered with blackness.

Where is the den of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, and the lioness walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Behold, I am against thee, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour thy young lions: and I will cut off thy prey from the earth, and the voice of thy messengers shall no more be heard.