Thematic Bible
Nahum 3:1 (show verse)
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.
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Theft » Woe denounced against
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Nineveh » Called » Bloody city
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Theft » Woe denounced against
Nahum 3:2 (show verse)
The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Nahum 3:3 (show verse)
the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
Nahum 3:4 (show verse)
because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
Nahum 3:5 (show verse)
"Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
Nahum 3:6 (show verse)
I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
Nahum 3:7 (show verse)
It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
Nahum 3:8 (show verse)
Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
Nahum 3:9 (show verse)
Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
Nahum 3:10 (show verse)
Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
Nahum 3:11 (show verse)
You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
Nahum 3:12 (show verse)
All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:13 (show verse)
Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
Nahum 3:14 (show verse)
Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
Nahum 3:15 (show verse)
There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
Nahum 3:16 (show verse)
You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
Nahum 3:17 (show verse)
Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
Nahum 3:18 (show verse)
Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
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Nahum 3:19 (show verse)
There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?