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Nahum 2:7

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7its mistress3 is ystripped;4 she is carried off,

her slave girls zlamenting,

moaning like doves

and beating their breasts.

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Footnotes

  1. 3The meaning of the Hebrew word rendered its mistress is uncertain
  2. 4Or exiled

Cross references

  1. y[Isa. 22:8]
  2. zIsa. 38:14

In other versions

NIVNew International Version (2011)

It is decreed that Nineveh

be exiled and carried away.

Her female slaves moan like doves

and beat on their breasts.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Beauty is stripped;

she is carried away;

her ladies-in-waiting moan

like the sound of doves

and beat their breasts.

NLTNew Living Translation

Nineveh’s exile has been decreed,

and all the servant girls mourn its capture.

They moan like doves

and beat their breasts in sorrow.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Her goddess is taken out and taken into exile;

her maidservants moan like doves;

they beat on their breasts.

KJV 1900King James Version

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up,

And her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves,

Tabering upon their breasts.