1 He that dasheth in pieces is come up before thy face: keep the munition, watch the way, make thy loins strong, fortify thy power mightily.

1 Ascendit qui dispergat coram te,
qui custodiat obsidionem:
contemplare viam, conforta lumbos,
robora virtutem valde.

2 For the Lord hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred their vine branches.

2 Quia reddidit Dominus superbiam Jacob,
sicut superbiam Israël;
quia vastatores dissipaverunt eos,
et propagines eorum corruperunt.

3 The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

3 Clypeus fortium ejus ignitus,
viri exercitus in coccineis;
igneæ habenæ currus in die præparationis ejus,
et agitatores consopiti sunt.

4 The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings.

4 In itineribus conturbati sunt;
quadrigæ collisæ sunt in plateis:
aspectus eorum quasi lampades,
quasi fulgura discurrentia.

5 He shall recount his worthies: they shall stumble in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defence shall be prepared.

5 Recordabitur fortium suorum;
ruent in itineribus suis:
velociter ascendent muros ejus,
et præparabitur umbraculum.

6 The gates of the rivers shall be opened, and the palace shall be dissolved.

6 Portæ fluviorum apertæ sunt,
et templum ad solum dirutum.

7 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.

7 Et miles captivus abductus est,
et ancillæ ejus minabantur gementes ut columbæ,
murmurantes in cordibus suis.

8 But Nineveh is of old like a pool of water: yet they shall flee away. Stand, stand, shall they cry; but none shall look back.

8 Et Ninive quasi piscina aquarum aquæ ejus;
ipsi vero fugerunt. State, state!
et non est qui revertatur.

9 Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.

9 Diripite argentum, diripite aurum:
et non est finis divitiarum ex omnibus vasis desiderabilibus.

10 She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather blackness.

10 Dissipata est, et scissa, et dilacerata;
et cor tabescens, et dissolutio geniculorum,
et defectio in cunctis renibus,
et facies omnium eorum sicut nigredo ollæ.

11 Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion's whelp, and none made them afraid?

11 Ubi est habitaculum leonum,
et pascua catulorum leonum,
ad quam ivit leo ut ingrederetur illuc catulus leonis,
et non est qui exterreat?

12 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.

12 Leo cepit sufficienter catulis suis,
et necavit leænis suis,
et implevit præda speluncas suas,
et cubile suum rapina.

13 Behold, I am against thee, saith 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.

13 Ecce ego ad te, dicit Dominus exercituum,
et succendam usque ad fumum quadrigas tuas,
et leunculos tuos comedet gladius,
et exterminabo de terra prædam tuam,
et non audietur ultra vox nuntiorum tuorum.