"It is finished, it is removed." "One who blows has come up against your face, delivering you from affliction.
σκόπευσον ὁδόν, κράτησον ὀσφύος, ἄνδρισαι τῇ ἰσχύι σφόδρα· §2.3διότι ἀπέστρεψεν Κύριος τὴν ὕβριν Ἰακὼβ καθὼς ὕβριν τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, διότι ἐκτινάσσοντες ἐξετίναξαν αὐτοὺς καὶ τὰ κλήματα αὐτῶν διέφθειραν. §2.4ὅπλα δυναστείας αὐτῶν ἐξ ἀνθρώπων, ἄνδρας δυνατοὺς ἐμπαίζοντας ἐν πυρί αἱ ἡνίαι τῶν ἁρμάτων αὐτῶν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἑτοιμασίας αὐτοῦ, καὶ οἱ ἱππεῖς θορυβηθήσονται §2.5ἐν ταῖς ὁδοῖς, καὶ συγχυθήσονται τὰ ἄρματα καὶ συνπλακήσονται ἐν ταῖς πλατείαις· ἡ ὅρασις αὐτῶν ὡς λαμπάδες πυρὸς καὶ ὡς ἀστραπαὶ διατρέχουσαι. §2.6καὶ μνησθήσονται οἱ μεγιστᾶνες αὐτῶν, καὶ φεύξονται ἡμέρας καὶ ἀσθενήσουσιν ἐν τῇ πορίᾳ αὐτῶν, καὶ σπεύσουσιν ἐπὶ τὰ τείχη αὐτῆς καὶ ἑτοιμάσουσιν τὰς προφυλακὰς αὐτῶν. §2.7πύλαι τῶν πόλεων διηνοίχθησαν, καὶ τὰ βασίλεια διέπεσεθ, §2.8καὶ ἡ ὑπόστασις ἀπεκαλύφθη· καὶ αὕτη ἀνέβαινεν καὶ αἱ δοῦλαι αὐτῆς ἥγοντο καθὼς περιστεραὶ φθεγγόμεναι ἐν καρδίαις αὐτῶν. §2.9καὶ Νινευή, ὡς κολυμβήθρα ὕδατος τὰ ὕδατα αὐτῆς, καὶ αὐτοὶ φεύγοντες οὐκ ἔστησαν, καὶ οὐκ ἣν ὁ ἐπιβλέπων. §2.10διήρπασαν τὸ ἀργύριον, διήρπαζον τὸ χρυσίον, καὶ οὐκ ἦν πέρας τοῦ κόσμου αὐτῆς· βεβάρυνται ἐπὶ πάντα σκεύη τὰ ἐπιθυμητὰ αὐτῆς.
Watch the way, strengthen your loins, behave courageously with great power." "For the Lord has turned away the pride of Jacob like the pride of Israel, because those who empty thoroughly emptied them and ruined their vine-branches." "The weapons of their power are from men, mighty men playing in fire; the reins of their chariots on the day of his preparation are as fire, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion." "In the streets, and the chariots shall be confused and clash together in the broad ways; their appearance is like torches of fire, and like running lightnings." "And their nobles shall remember, and they shall flee by day and become weak on their march; and they shall hasten to her walls and prepare their defenses." "The gates of the cities were opened, and the palaces fell down," "and the substance was uncovered; and she herself went up, and her handmaids were led away moaning like doves in their hearts." "And Nineveh, her waters were like a pool of water; and they fled and did not stand, and there was none to look back." "They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of her ornaments; they were heavily laden with all her desirable vessels." "Emptying, and shaking, and casting out!
§2.11ἐκτιναγμὸς καὶ ἀνατιναγμός, καὶ ἐκβραγμὸς καὶ καρδίας θραυσμός, καὶ ὑπόλυσις γονάτων καὶ ὠδῖυες ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ὀσφύν, καὶ τὸ πρόσωπον πάντων ὡς πρόσκαυμα χύτρας. §2.12ποῦ ἐστιν τὸ κατοικητήριον τῶν λεόντων, καὶ ἡ νομὴ ἡ οὖσα τοῖς σκύμνοις;
And breaking of heart, and loosening of knees, and pangs on all loins, and the face of all like the blackness of a pot." "Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the cubs?
ποῦ ἐπορεύθη λέων τοῦ εἰσελθεῖν ἐκεῖ σκύμνον λέοντος, καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ ἐκφοβῶν; §2.13λέων ἥρπασεν τὰ ἱκανὰ τοῖς σκύμνοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀπέπνιξεν τοῖς λέουσιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔπλησεν θήρας νοσσιὰν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ κατοικητήριον αὐτοῦ ἁρπαγῆς. §2.14ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἐπὶ σέ, λέγει Κύριος Παντοκράτωρ, καὶ ἐκκαύσω ἐν καπνῷ πλῆθός σου, καὶ τοὺς λέοντάς σου καταφάγεται ῥομφαία, καὶ ἐξολεθρεύσω ἐκ τῆς γῆς τὴν θήραν σου, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀκουσθῇ οὐκέτι τὰ ἔργα σου.
Where did the lion go, that the lion's cub should enter there, and there was none to make them afraid?" "The lion snatched enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling with plunder." "Behold, I am against you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will burn your multitude in smoke, and the sword shall devour your lions; and I will destroy your prey from the earth, and your works shall no more be heard of."