Nahum 2:7 meaning and explanation
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.
Nahum 2:7, Berean Standard Bible
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Nahum is prophesying the fall of Nineveh, the Assyrian capital that had terrorized Judah. In verse 7 the city's fate is fixed: exile and captivity are decreed, and the scene shifts to the palace women, her maidservants, who mourn like doves and beat their breasts in grief.
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