Nahum 2:7

American Standard Version (1901)

And it is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating upon their breasts.

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 38:14 : 14 Like a swallow [or] a crane, so did I chatter; I did moan as a dove; mine eyes fail [with looking] upward: O Lord, I am oppressed, be thou my surety.
  • Isa 59:11 : 11 We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.
  • Luke 23:27 : 27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.
  • Luke 23:48 : 48 And all the multitudes that came together to this sight, when they beheld the things that were done, returned smiting their breasts.
  • Isa 32:12 : 12 They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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