Nahum 3 : 1 (NET)
Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!
Nahum 3 : 2 (NET)
The chariot drivers will crack their whips; the chariot wheels will shake the ground; the chariot horses will gallop; the war chariots will bolt forward!
Nahum 3 : 3 (NET)
The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties� so many that people will stumble over the corpses.
Nahum 3 : 4 (NET)
"Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute� a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery�
Nahum 3 : 5 (NET)
I am against you," declares the LORD who commands armies. "I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms;
Nahum 3 : 6 (NET)
I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
Nahum 3 : 7 (NET)
Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, 'Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?' There will be no one to comfort you!"
Nahum 3 : 8 (NET)
You are no more secure than Thebes� she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.
Nahum 3 : 9 (NET)
Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.
Nahum 3 : 10 (NET)
Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
Nahum 3 : 11 (NET)
You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
Nahum 3 : 12 (NET)
All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit: If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!
Nahum 3 : 13 (NET)
Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.
Nahum 3 : 14 (NET)
Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
Nahum 3 : 15 (NET)
There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would. Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
Nahum 3 : 16 (NET)
Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
Nahum 3 : 17 (NET)
Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
Nahum 3 : 18 (NET)
Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!
Nahum 3 : 19 (NET)
Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
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