Nahum 2:7
Good News Translation
The queen is taken captive; her servants moan like doves and beat their breasts in sorrow.

New Revised Standard Version
It is decreed that the city be exiled, its slave women led away, moaning like doves and beating their breasts.

Contemporary English Version
Nineveh is disgraced. The queen is dragged off. Her servant women mourn; they moan like doves, and they beat their breasts in sorrow.

New American Bible
The mistress is led forth captive, and her maidservants led away, Moaning like doves, beating their breasts.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the soldier is led away captive: and her bondwomen were led away mourning as doves, murmuring in their hearts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Nahum 2:6
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