English Bible Presentation Sharing - Nahum Book, chapter 3, verse 13 in Lxxen Version

Nahum 3 : 1 (LXXEN)

O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be *Or, felt after; See Ac 17:27 handled.

Nahum 3 : 2 (LXXEN)

The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,

Nahum 3 : 3 (LXXEN)

and of the *Or, rider on horseback mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies

Nahum 3 : 4 (LXXEN)

because of the abundance of fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.

Nahum 3 : 5 (LXXEN)

Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover thy skirts in thy presence, and I will shew the nations thy shame, and the kingdoms thy disgrace.

Nahum 3 : 6 (LXXEN)

And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.

Nahum 3 : 7 (LXXEN)

And it shall be that every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?

Nahum 3 : 8 (LXXEN)

Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.

Nahum 3 : 9 (LXXEN)

And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.

Nahum 3 : 10 (LXXEN)

Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.

Nahum 3 : 11 (LXXEN)

And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be *Or, despised overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself q. d. establishment strength because of thine enemies.

Nahum 3 : 12 (LXXEN)

All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees *rwkb probably read as rqb having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3 : 13 (LXXEN)

Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.

Nahum 3 : 14 (LXXEN)

Draw thee water *Gr. of for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and Alex. tread thou be thou trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.

Nahum 3 : 15 (LXXEN)

There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.

Nahum 3 : 16 (LXXEN)

Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.

Nahum 3 : 17 (LXXEN)

Thy mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!

Nahum 3 : 18 (LXXEN)

Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to *Or, wait for receive them.

Nahum 3 : 19 (LXXEN)

There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?