The Koine Bible

Behold, on the mountains the feet of one bringing good news and announcing peace. Celebrate, Judah, your feasts; render your vows, for they shall no longer continue to pass through you for destruction; it is ended, it has been lifted up.

One who breathes upon your face has gone up, rescuing from affliction; watch the way, strengthen the loins, be manly in strength exceedingly

For the Lord has turned back the insolence of Jacob, like the insolence of Israel, because plunderers plundered them and ruined their branches.

The weapons of their power are from men, men mighty, mocking in fire; the reins of their chariots on the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be troubled.

In the roads the chariots will also be thrown into confusion, and they will be entangled in the broad places; their appearance is like torches of fire and like lightning flashes running to and fro

And their nobles shall remember, and they shall flee by day, and they shall grow weak in their way, and they shall hasten to the walls, and they shall prepare their defenses.

The gates of the rivers were opened, and the palaces fell apart.

And the standing was uncovered, and she herself was going up, and her maidens were led away, as doves making a sound in their hearts

And Nineveh is like a pool of water, her waters, and they themselves fleeing did not stand, and there was no one looking back.

They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end to her wealth; she is burdened above all her desirable vessels.

Shaking and tossing and upheaval and breaking of heart and loosening of knees and pangs upon every loin, and the face of all like the kindling of a pot

Where is the dwelling place of the lions, and the pasture that was for the lion’s cubs, where the lion went, to enter there, a lion’s cub, and there was none to frighten?

The lion has seized enough for his whelps and has strangled for his lionesses, and has filled his den with prey and his dwelling place 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 utterly destroy your prey from the land, and your works shall no longer be heard.