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Nah. 2:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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

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or, pride.

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hath.

Isa. 10:5‑12• ⁵O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
⁶I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.
⁷Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.
⁸For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?
⁹Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?
¹⁰As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;
¹¹Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?
¹²Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks. (Isa. 10:5‑12)

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Jer. 25:29• ²⁹For, lo, I begin to bring evil on the city which is called by my name, and should ye be utterly unpunished? Ye shall not be unpunished: for I will call for a sword upon all the inhabitants of the earth, saith the Lord of hosts. (Jer. 25:29)

excellency of Jacob as the excellency.

or, the pride of Jacobas the pride.

Zeph. 3:11• ¹¹In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain. (Zeph. 3:11)

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Gen. 49:22‑23• ²²Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
²³The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him: (Gen. 49:22‑23)

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Psa. 80:12‑13• ¹²Why hast thou then broken down her hedges, so that all they which pass by the way do pluck her?
¹³The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it. (Psa. 80:12‑13)

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Jer. 49:9• ⁹If grapegatherers come to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes? if thieves by night, they will destroy till they have enough. (Jer. 49:9)

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Hos. 10:1• ¹Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images. (Hos. 10:1)

• Thus we see the collateral subject, namely, the judgment of Israel by their enemies; but inasmuch as the Assyrians executed that judgment in such a way as to insult God Himself, and not only to chasten His guilty people, they must be prepared for their own doom. (“Nahum 2” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For Jehovah hath brought againk the glory of Jacob, as the glory of Israell; for the wasters have wasted themm, and marred their vine-branches.

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k

Or "hath returned to."

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Or "hath turned away the pride of Jacob as the pride of Israel."

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Or "the emptiers have emptied them out."