Nahum 2:3-10 - The Enemy Army Conquers The City Of Nineveh
3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are dressed in scarlet: the chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the cypress tree [spears] are brandished. 4 The chariots wildly race through the streets. They rush to and fro in the broad ways. They look like torches and they run like lightning. 5 He remembers his majestic ones. They stumble as they march. They hurry to the wall to prepare the barricade. 6 The gates of the rivers are opened and the palace is dissolved.
7 It is decreed: she is uncovered! She is carried away and her handmaids moan like the sound of doves, beating on their chests. 8 Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water: yet they flee away. Stand, stand, they cry; but none looks back. 9 Take the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold for there is no limit to the amount of desirable things. 10 She is empty and void, a city laid waste! The hearts melt and the knees knock together. There is pain in all the hips and their faces have all grown pale.