Nahum 3 NKJV

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width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/nahum/3.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>The Woe of Nineveh</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Nah-3-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Woe to the bloody city!</span></span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-1">It <i>is</i> all full of lies <i>and</i> robbery.</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-1"><i>Its</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>victim never departs.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>The noise of a whip</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-2">And the noise of rattling wheels,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-2">Of galloping horses,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-2">Of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>clattering chariots!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-3"><i>There is</i> a multitude of slain,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-3">A great number of bodies,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-3">Countless corpses—</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-3">They stumble over the corpses—</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Because of the multitude of <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>harlotries of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>seductive harlot,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-4">The mistress of sorceries,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-4">Who sells nations through her harlotries,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-4">And families through her sorceries.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Behold, I <i>am</i> against you,” says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-5">“I will lift your skirts over your face,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-5">I will show the nations your nakedness,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-5">And the kingdoms your shame.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>I will cast abominable filth upon you,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-6">Make you vile,<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span></span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-6">And make you a spectacle.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>It shall come to pass <i>that</i> all who look upon you</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-7">Will flee from you, and say,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-7">‘Nineveh is laid waste!</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-7">Who will bemoan her?’</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-7">Where shall I seek comforters for you?”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Are you better than No<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span> Amon</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-8"><i>That was</i> situated by the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>River,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-8">That had the waters around her,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-8">Whose rampart <i>was</i> the sea,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-8">Whose wall <i>was</i> the sea?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ethiopia and Egypt <i>were</i> her strength,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-9">And <i>it was</i> boundless;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-9">Put and Lubim were <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>your helpers.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yet she <i>was</i> carried away,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-10">She went into captivity;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-10">Her young children also were dashed to pieces</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-10">At the head of every street;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-10">They cast lots for her honorable men,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-10">And all her great men were bound in chains.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>You also will be drunk;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-11">You will be hidden;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-11">You also will seek refuge from the enemy.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All your strongholds <i>are</i> fig trees with ripened figs:</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-12">If they are shaken,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-12">They fall into the mouth of the eater.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Surely, your people in your midst <i>are</i> women!</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-13">The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-13">Fire shall devour the bars of your <i>gates.</i></span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Draw your water for the siege!</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-14">Fortify your strongholds!</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-14">Go into the clay and tread the mortar!</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-14">Make strong the brick kiln!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There the fire will devour you,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-15">The sword will cut you off;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-15">It will eat you up like a locust.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"><span class="text Nah-3-15">Make yourself many—like the locust!</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-15">Make yourself many—like the <i>swarming</i> locusts!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-16">The locust plunders and flies away.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Your commanders <i>are</i> like <i>swarming</i> locusts,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-17">And your generals like great grasshoppers,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-17">Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-17">When the sun rises they flee away,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-17">And the place where they <i>are</i> is not known.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria;</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-18">Your nobles rest <i>in the dust.</i></span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-18">Your people are scattered on the mountains,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-18">And no one gathers them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Your injury <i>has</i> no healing,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-19">Your wound is severe.</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-19">All who hear news of you</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-19">Will clap <i>their</i> hands over you,</span><br /><span class="text Nah-3-19">For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-22714a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:1">Nahum 3:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>prey</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22715b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:2">Nahum 3:2</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>bounding</i> or <i>jolting</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22717c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:4">Nahum 3:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Spiritual unfaithfulness</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22717d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:4">Nahum 3:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>goodly charm,</i> in a bad sense</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22719e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:6">Nahum 3:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>despicable</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22721f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:8">Nahum 3:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Ancient Thebes; Tg., Vg. <i>populous Alexandria</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22721g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:8">Nahum 3:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>rivers,</i> the Nile and the surrounding canals</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-22722h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Nahum 3:9">Nahum 3:9</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX <i>her</i></span></li></ol></div> </span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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