Read Nahum 3

World English Bible · 19 verses

1. ¹ Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
2. ² The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
3. ³ 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 bodies. They stumble on their bodiesThis verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
4. ⁴ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
5. ⁵ “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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
6. ⁶ I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
7. ⁷ 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?”This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
8. ⁸ 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?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
9. ⁹ Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
10. ¹⁰ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
11. ¹¹ You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
12. ¹² 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
13. ¹³ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
14. ¹⁴ Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
15. ¹⁵ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
16. ¹⁶ You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
17. ¹⁷ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
18. ¹⁸ 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.This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.
19. ¹⁹ 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?This verse is not in this translation's source text (many modern translations omit it). See your Bible's footnote.

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