Most Popular Bible Verses in Nahum 3
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the attractive mistress of sorcery,
who betrays nations by her prostitution
and clans by her witchcraft,
This is the declaration of the Lord of Hosts.
I will lift your skirts over your face
and display your nakedness to nations,
your shame to kingdoms.
and treat you with contempt;
I will make a spectacle of you.
“Nineveh is devastated;
who will show sympathy to her?”
Where can I find anyone to comfort you?
that sat along the Nile
with water surrounding her,
whose rampart was the sea,
the river
Put and Libya were among her
totally deceitful,
full of plunder,
never without prey.
she went into captivity.
Her children were also dashed to pieces
at the head of every street.
They cast lots for her dignitaries,
and all her nobles were bound in chains.
you will hide yourself.
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
your wound is severe.
All who hear the news about you
will clap their hands because of you,
for who has not experienced
your constant cruelty?
the gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies.
Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
the sword will cut you down.
It will devour you like the young locust.
Multiply yourselves like the young locust,
multiply like the swarming locust!
with figs that ripened first;
when shaken, they fall—
right into the mouth of the eater!
flashing sword,
shining spear;
heaps of slain,
mounds of corpses,
dead bodies without end
they stumble over their dead.
more numerous than the stars of the sky.
The young locust strips
and flies away.
your officers sleep.
Your people are scattered across the mountains
with no one to gather them together.
and your scribes like clouds of locusts,
which settle on the walls on a cold day;
when the sun rises, they take off,
and no one knows where they are.