English Bible Presentation Sharing - Nahum Book, chapter 3, verse 12 in Mkjv Version

Nahum 3 : 1 (MKJV)

Woe to the bloody city! It is a lie, and full of plunder; the prey is not withdrawn.

Nahum 3 : 2 (MKJV)

The sound of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of a wheel, and of a galloping horse, and of a bounding chariot.

Nahum 3 : 3 (MKJV)

The horseman lifts up both the bright sword and the lightning of the spear. And many are slain, and there are a mass of dead bodies, and no end of corpses; they stumble on their dead bodies,

Nahum 3 : 4 (MKJV)

because of the many harlotries of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of sorceries who sells nations by her harlotries, and families by her sorceries.

Nahum 3 : 5 (MKJV)

Behold, I am against you, says Jehovah of Hosts; and I will uncover your skirts upon your face. And I will cause the nations to see your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

Nahum 3 : 6 (MKJV)

And I will cast filth upon you, and will dishonor you, and will set you as a gazing-stock.

Nahum 3 : 7 (MKJV)

And it shall be that all those who look upon you shall flee from you, and say, Nineveh is laid waste; who will weep for her? From where shall I seek comforters for you?

Nahum 3 : 8 (MKJV)

Are you better than No Amon, that dwelt among the Nile branches, waters all around her, whose rampart was the sea, the waters her wall?

Nahum 3 : 9 (MKJV)

Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, yea, without end. Put and Lubim were among your helpers.

Nahum 3 : 10 (MKJV)

Yet she went into exile; she went into captivity, and her young children also were dashed to 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.

Nahum 3 : 11 (MKJV)

You also shall be drunken; you shall be hidden, you also shall seek strength because of the enemy.

Nahum 3 : 12 (MKJV)

All your strongholds shall be like fig trees with the first fruits; if they are shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nahum 3 : 13 (MKJV)

Behold, your people in your midst are women. The gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies; the fire shall devour your bars.

Nahum 3 : 14 (MKJV)

Draw waters for the siege; fortify your strongholds; go into the clay, and tread the mortar; make the brick mold strong.

Nahum 3 : 15 (MKJV)

There fire shall devour you; the sword shall cut you off, it shall eat you up like the locust. Make yourself as many as the larvae, multiply yourself like the locusts.

Nahum 3 : 16 (MKJV)

You have multiplied your merchants above the stars of heaven; the locust larvae shall strip off and fly away.

Nahum 3 : 17 (MKJV)

Your rulers are like the locusts, and your officials are a swarm of locusts that camp in the hedges in the cold day; the sun rises, and they flee, and the place where they are is not known.

Nahum 3 : 18 (MKJV)

Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria. Your nobles are at rest; your people are scattered upon the mountains, and no one is gathering.

Nahum 3 : 19 (MKJV)

There is no healing of your fracture; your wound is grievous; all who hear the news of you shall clap the hands over you; for upon whom has your wickedness not passed continually?