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It <i>is</i> all full of lies <i>and</i> robbery. <i>Its</i> victim never departs.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Woe to the bloody city! it <i>is</i> all full of lies <i>and</i> robbery; the prey departeth not;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">The noise of a whip And the noise of rattling wheels, Of galloping horses, Of clattering chariots!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear. <i>There is</i> a multitude of slain, A great number of bodies, Countless corpses— They stumble over the corpses—<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and <i>there is</i> a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and <i>there is</i> none end of <i>their</i> corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot, The mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations through her harlotries, And families through her sorceries.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">“Behold, I <i>am</i> against you,” says the LORD of hosts; “I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, And the kingdoms your shame.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, I <i>am</i> against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will cast abominable filth upon you, Make you vile, And make you a spectacle.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">It shall come to pass <i>that</i> all who look upon you Will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?”<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Are you better than No Amon <i>That was</i> situated by the River, That had the waters around her, Whose rampart <i>was</i> the sea, Whose wall <i>was</i> the sea?<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, <i>that had</i> the waters round about it, whose rampart <i>was</i> the sea, <i>and</i> her wall <i>was</i> from the sea?</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Ethiopia and Egypt <i>were</i> her strength, And <i>it was</i> boundless; Put and Lubim were your helpers.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Ethiopia and Egypt <i>were</i> her strength, and <i>it was</i> infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Yet she <i>was</i> carried away, She went into captivity; Her young children also were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Yet <i>was</i> she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You also will be drunk; You will be hidden; You also will seek refuge from the enemy.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">All your strongholds <i>are</i> fig trees with ripened figs: If they are shaken, They fall into the mouth of the eater.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">All thy strong holds <i>shall be like</i> fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Surely, your people in your midst <i>are</i> women! The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies; Fire shall devour the bars of your <i>gates.</i><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, thy people in the midst of thee <i>are</i> women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Draw your water for the siege! Fortify your strongholds! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Make strong the brick kiln!<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">There the fire will devour you, The sword will cut you off; It will eat you up like a locust. Make yourself many—like the locust! Make yourself many—like the <i>swarming</i> locusts!<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven. The locust plunders and flies away.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Your commanders <i>are</i> like <i>swarming</i> locusts, And your generals like great grasshoppers, Which camp in the hedges on a cold day; When the sun rises they flee away, And the place where they <i>are</i> is not known.<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thy crowned <i>are</i> as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, <i>but</i> when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they <i>are</i>.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; Your nobles rest <i>in the dust.</i> Your people are scattered on the mountains, And no one gathers them.<td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell <i>in the dust</i>: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth <i>them</i>.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Your injury <i>has</i> no healing, Your wound is severe. All who hear news of you Will clap <i>their</i> hands over you, For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2"><i>There is</i> no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?</span></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="copy" width="50%">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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