Naum 2

1 He who dashes in pieces has come up against you. Keep the fortress! Watch the way! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!

2 For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob as the excellency of Israel, for the destroyers have destroyed them and ruined their vine branches.

3 The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished. 4 The chariots rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the wide ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings. 5 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place. 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 servants moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts. 8 But Nineveh has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. "Stop! Stop!" they cry, but no one looks back. 9 Take the plunder of silver. Take the plunder of gold, for there is no end of treasure, an abundance of every precious thing. 10 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale. 11 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked with the lion’s cubs, and no one made them afraid? 12 The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey. 13 "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions; and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers will no longer be heard."

Te Urupatu o te Pā Kino

1 Kua tae ake te kaiwāwāhi ki tōu aroaro.

Tiakina te pā,

tūteia te ara,

kia kaha tōu hope,

kia ū rawa tōu kaha.

2 Nō te mea ka whakahokia mai e Ihowā te korōria o Hākopa,

me te korōria o Īharaira;

kua takoto kau hoki rātou i ngā kaiwhakatakoto kau,

kua hē anō ā rātou manga wāina i a rātou.

3 Kua oti te whakangungu rākau a āna mārohirohi te whakawhero,

he ngangana te kākahu o ngā māia.

Kei te rino e kanapa ana te rite o ngā hāriata

i te rā e takatū ai ia,

ā, ko ngā tao wiri rawa.

4 Ngana tonu ngā hāriata i ngā ara,

taututetute ana ki a rātou anō i ngā waharoa;

ko tō rātou āhua ānō he roherohe,

e rere ana me he uira.

5 Ka mahara ia ki āna metararahi;

ka tapatu rātou i a rātou e haere ana;

ka hohoro rātou ki tō reira taiepa,

ā, ka rite te ārai.

6 Ka whakatuwheratia ngā kūwaha o ngā awa,

ka papahoro te whare kīngi.

7 Nā, kua tū tahanga a Huhapa, kua maua atu ia,

ā, ka tangi āna pononga wāhine,

ko te reo koia anō kei tō te kūkupa,

ko ō rātou uma hei timipera mā rātou.

8 Ko Ninewe ia, ko tōna rite mai onamata, kei te puna wai.

Heoi, ka tahuti rātou;

ka karanga, "E tū, e tū!"

Heoi, e kore tētahi e titiro whakamuri.

9 Pāhuatia te hiriwa,

pāhuatia te kōura;

kāhore hoki he mutunga o ngā rawa,

o te korōria i roto i ngā taonga āhuareka katoa.

10 Kua takoto kau ia, kāhore āna mea, mōtī rawa!

Harotu kau te ngākau, kei te āki anō ngā turi ki a rāua,

he nui te mamae kei ngā hope katoa,

kua kōmā ngā mata o rātou katoa.

11 Kei hea te nohoanga o ngā raiona,

te wāhi kai a ngā kūao raiona,

te wāhi i hāereere ai te raiona, me te raiona kātua,

me te kūao raiona, tē ai he kaiwhakawehi?

12 I haehaea mai e te raiona he mea e mākona ai āna kūao,

nōtia ana e ia te kakī hei mea mā āna raiona uha,

whakakīia ana e ia ōna rua ki te kai,

ōna nohoanga hoki ki te mea i haehaea.

13 "Nanā, hei hoariri tēnei ahau mōu,"

e ai tā Ihowā o ngā mano,

"ka tahuna anō e ahau ana hāriata i roto i te paowa,

ka pau āu kūao raiona i te hoari.

Ka kore i ahau he haehaenga māu i runga i te whenua,

e kore anō te reo o āu karere e rangona ā muri ake nei."