Nahum 2:7
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And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Huzzab.

Isaiah 38:14 I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Isaiah 59:11 We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Luke 23:27,48 And there followed him a great multitude of people and of women, who bewailed and lamented him. . . .

Context
The Overthrow of Nineveh
6The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground. 7And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.8And as for Ninive, her waters are like a great pool: but the men flee away. They cry: Stand, stand, but there is none that will return back.…
Cross References
Mark 14:66
Now when Peter was in the court below, there cometh one of the maidservants of the high priest.

Isaiah 32:12
Mourn for your breasts, for the delightful country, for the fruitful vineyard.

Isaiah 38:14
I will cry like a young swallow, I will meditate like a dove: my eyes are weakened looking upward: Lord, I suffer violence, answer thou for me.

Isaiah 59:11
We shall roar all of us like bears, and shall lament as mournful doves. We have looked for judgment, and there is none: for salvation, and it is far from us.

Ezekiel 7:16
And such of them as shall flee shall escape: and they shall be in the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them trembling, every one for his iniquity.

Nahum 2:6
The gates of the rivers are opened, and the temple is thrown down to the ground.

Lexicon
It is decreed that
וְהֻצַּ֖ב (wə·huṣ·ṣaḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hofal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5324: To take one's stand, stand

[the city] be exiled
גֻּלְּתָ֣ה (gul·lə·ṯāh)
Verb - Pual - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1540: To denude, to exile, to reveal

and carried away;
הֹֽעֲלָ֑תָה (hō·‘ă·lā·ṯāh)
Verb - Hofal - Perfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5927: To ascend, in, actively

her maidservants
וְאַמְהֹתֶ֗יהָ (wə·’am·hō·ṯe·hā)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's Hebrew 519: A maidservant, female slave

moan
מְנַֽהֲגוֹת֙ (mə·na·hă·ḡō·wṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5090: To drive forth, lead, carry away, to proceed, to sigh

like
כְּק֣וֹל (kə·qō·wl)
Preposition-k | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 6963: A voice, sound

doves,
יוֹנִ֔ים (yō·w·nîm)
Noun - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3123: A dove

and beat upon
מְתֹפְפֹ֖ת (mə·ṯō·p̄ə·p̄ōṯ)
Verb - Piel - Participle - feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8608: To drum, play, on the tambourine

their breasts.
לִבְבֵהֶֽן׃ (liḇ·ḇê·hen)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3824: Inner man, mind, will, heart


Additional Translations
It is decreed that the city be exiled and carried away; her maidservants moan like doves, and beat upon their breasts.And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, beating on their breasts.

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.

and the foundation has been exposed; and she has gone up, and her maid-servants were led away as doves moaning in their hearts.

And it is decreed: she shall be uncovered, she shall be led away, and her maids shall moan as with the voice of doves, drumming upon their breasts.

And Huzzab is uncovered, she is carried away, and her handmaids mourn as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

And Huzzab shall be led away captive, she shall be brought up, and her maids shall lead her as with the voice of doves, tabering upon their breasts.

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

And it is established -- she hath removed, She hath been brought up, And her handmaids are leading as the voice of doves, Tabering on their hearts.
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