Nahum 2:7

Nahum 2:7 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

7It is decreed2:7 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain. that Nineveh

be exiled and carried away.

Her female slaves moan like doves

and beat on their breasts.

7It is set:

She is stripped, she is led away,

And her slave women are sobbing like the sound of doves,

Beating their 2:7 Lit heartsbreasts.

7It is fixed:

She is stripped, she is carried away,

And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,

Beating on their breasts.

7It is decreed:

Nineveh is stripped, and she is carried away,

And her handmaids are moaning like the sound of doves,

Beating on their breasts [in sorrow].

7It is decreed that the city be exiled

and carried away;

her maidservants moan like doves,

and beat upon their breasts.

7The attackers order that Nineveh’s people

be taken away as prisoners.

The female slaves sound like doves as they mourn.

They beat their chests.