The Tanach, with the evidence built in
This is the complete Hebrew Bible in the Jewish Publication Society translation. Wherever a real archaeological find bears on the text, those words are underlined in gold✦. Hover over them or tap them to see the artifact and what it confirms. From there, Next find takes you to the next underline, so you can tour a whole book’s evidence, and the share button turns the verse into an image.
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Chapter 2
1Behold on the hillsThe footsteps of a heraldAnnouncing good fortune!“Celebrate your festivals, O Judah,Fulfill your vows.Never again shall scoundrels invade you,They have totally vanished.”
2A shatterer has come up against you.Man the guard posts,Watch the road;Steady your loins,Brace all your strength!
3For the LORD has restored the Pride of JacobAs well as the Pride of Israel,Though marauders have laid them wasteAnd ravaged their branches.
4His warriors’ shields are painted red,And the soldiers are clothed in crimson;The chariots are like flaming torches,On the day they are made ready.The [arrows of] cypress wood are poisoned,
5The chariots dash about frenzied in the fields,They rush through the meadows.They appear like torches,They race like streaks of lightning.
6He commands his burly men;They stumble as they advance,They hasten up to her wall,Where wheeled shelters are set up.
7The floodgates are opened,And the palace is deluged.
8And Huzzab is exiled and carried away,While her handmaidens escort [her]As with the voices of doves,Beating their breasts.
9Nineveh has been like a [placid] pool of waterFrom earliest times;Now they flee.“Stop! Stop!”—But none can turn them back.
10“Plunder silver! Plunder gold!”There is no limit to the treasure;It is a hoard of all precious objects.
11Desolation, devastation, and destruction!Spirits sink,Knees buckle,All loins tremble,All faces turn ashen.
12What has become of that lions’ den,That pasture of great beasts,Where lion and lion’s breed walked,And lion’s cub—with none to disturb them?
13[Where is] the lion that tore victims for his cubsAnd strangled for his lionesses,And filled his lairs with preyAnd his dens with mangled flesh?
14I am going to deal with you—declares the LORD of Hosts:I will burn down her chariots in smoke,And the sword shall devour your great beasts;I will stamp out your killings from the earth,And the sound of your messengersShall be heard no more.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).