1 Behold, on the har (mountain) the ragal (feet / foot) of him who brings bashar (good) news, who publishes shalawam (peace / safety)! Chagag (keep) your chag (feast/festival), Yahawadah (Yahawadah / Judah)! Shalam (perform) your nadar (vow), for the balayail (wicked) yasap (one) will no more ibar (pass over/through) through you. He is karath (cut) cut off.
2 He who dashes in pieces has yasap (come) up il (over) you. Chagag (keep) the fortress! Watch the ibar (pass over/through)! Strengthen your waist! Fortify your power mightily!
3 For Yahawah () ilah (go up / offer) the excellency of Yaiqab (Jacob), as the excellency of Yashar-Al (Israel); for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
4 The shield of his mighty men is shawab (turn) red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
5 The rakab (chariots) rage in the streets. They rush back and forth in the broad ways. Their appearance is like torches. They run like the lightnings.
6 He summons his picked troops. They stumble on their way. They dash to its wall, and the protective shield is put in place.
7 The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.
8 It is decreed: she is uncovered, she is carried away; and her handmaids moan as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.
9 But Nayanawah (Nineveh) has been from of old like a pool of water, yet they flee away. “Stop! Stop!” They cry, but no one looks back.
10 Take the spoil of silver. Take the spoil of gold, for there is no yawam (day) of the store, the glory of all goodly furniture.
11 She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
12 Where is the den of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions, where the lion and the lioness walked, the lion's cubs, and no one made them afraid?
13 The aray (lion) tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his maiwan (dens) with prey.