Nahum Chapter 3

• Nahum 3:1
  Nahum.
• Nahum 3:2
  Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.
• Nahum 3:3
  The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
• Nahum 3:4
  the horseman charging, 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...
• Nahum 3:5
  because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and f...
• Nahum 3:6
  “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the king...
• Nahum 3:7
  I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.
• Nahum 3:8
  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 comforte...
• Nahum 3:9
  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 3:10
  Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
• Nahum 3:11
  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 fo...
• Nahum 3:12
  You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
• Nahum 3:13
  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 3:14
  Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
• Nahum 3:15
  Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
• Nahum 3:16
  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 loc...
• Nahum 3:17
  You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
• Nahum 3:18
  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, th...
• Nahum 3:19
  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.
• Nahum 3:20
  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 c...