Thematic Bible
Nahum 3:1 (show verse)
Woe to that bloodthirsty city, which is all full of lies and robbery, and will not leave off from ravishing.
Nahum 3:2 (show verse)
There a man may hear scourging, rushing, the noise of the wheels, the crying of the horses, and the rolling of the chariots.
Nahum 3:3 (show verse)
There the horsemen get up with naked swords, and glistering spears. There lieth a multitude slain, and a great heap of dead bodies. There is no end of dead corpses: yea, men fall upon their bodies.
Nahum 3:4 (show verse)
And that for the great and manifold whoredom of the fair and beautiful harlot: which is a mistress of witchcraft, yea and selleth the people through her whoredom, and the nations through her witchcraft.
Nahum 3:5 (show verse)
Behold, I will upon thee, sayeth the LORD of Hosts, and will pull thy clothes over thy head: that I may show thy nakedness among the Heathen, and thy shame among the kingdoms.
Nahum 3:6 (show verse)
I will cast dirt upon thee, to make thee be abhorred, and a gazing stock.
Nahum 3:7 (show verse)
Yea, all they that look upon thee shall start back, and say, "Nineveh is destroyed!" Who will have pity upon thee? Where shall I seek one to comfort thee?
Nahum 3:8 (show verse)
Art thou better than the great city of Alexandria: that lay in the waters, and had the waters round about it? Which was strongly fenced and walled with the sea?
Nahum 3:9 (show verse)
Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and that exceedingly great above measure. Put and Libya were her helpers,
Nahum 3:10 (show verse)
yet was she driven away, and brought into captivity: her young children were smitten down at the head of every street, the lots were cast for the most ancient men in her, and all her mighty men were bound in chains.
Nahum 3:11 (show verse)
Even so shalt thou also be drunken, and hide thyself, and seek some help against thine enemy.
Nahum 3:12 (show verse)
All thy strong cities shall be like fig trees with ripe figs: which when a man shaketh, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
Nahum 3:13 (show verse)
Behold, thy people within thee are but women: the ports of thy land shall be open unto thine enemies, and the fire shall devour thy bars.
Nahum 3:14 (show verse)
Draw water now against thou be besieged, make up thy strongholds, go into the clay, temper the mortar, make strong brick:
Nahum 3:15 (show verse)
yet the fire shall consume thee, the sword shall destroy thee. Yea, as the locust doth, so shall it eat thee up. It shall fall heavily upon thee as the locusts, yea right heavily shall it fall upon thee, even as the grasshoppers.
Nahum 3:16 (show verse)
Thy merchants have been numbered with the stars of heaven: but now shall they spread abroad as the locusts, and flee their way.
Nahum 3:17 (show verse)
Thy lords are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the multitude of grasshoppers: which when they be cold, remain in the hedges: but when the Sun is up, they flee away, and no man can tell where they are become.
Nahum 3:18 (show verse)
Thy shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria, thy worthies are laid down: thy people is scattered abroad upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them together again.
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Nahum 3:19 (show verse)
Thy wound cannot be hid, thy plague is so sore. All they that hear this of thee, shall clap their hands over thee. For what is he, to whom thou hast not always been doing hurt?