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From where do I seek comforters for you?”<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Are you better than No-Ammon, "" That is dwelling among brooks? Waters she has around her, "" Whose bulwark [is] the sea, waters her wall.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Cush her might, and Egypt, and there is no end. Put and Lubim have been for your help.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Even she becomes an exile, "" She has gone into captivity, "" Even her sucklings are dashed to pieces "" At the top of all out-places, "" And for her honored ones they cast a lot, "" And all her great ones have been bound in chains.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Even you are drunken, you are hidden, "" Even you seek a strong place, because of an enemy.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All your fortresses [are] fig trees with first-fruits, "" If they are shaken, "" They have fallen into the mouth of the eater.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, your people [are] women in your midst, "" To your enemies thoroughly opened "" Have been the gates of your land, "" Fire has consumed your bars.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Waters of a siege draw for yourself, "" Strengthen your fortresses, "" Enter into mire, and tread on clay, "" Make strong a brick-kiln.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There a fire consumes you, "" A sword cuts you off, "" It consumes you as a cankerworm! Make yourself heavy as the cankerworm, "" Make yourself heavy as the locust.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Multiply your merchants above the stars of the heavens, "" The cankerworm has stripped off, and flees away.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Your crowned ones [are] as a locust, "" And your princes as great grasshoppers, "" That encamp in hedges in a day of cold, "" The sun has risen, and it flees away, "" And its place where they are is not known.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Your friends have slumbered, king of Asshur, "" Your majestic ones rest, "" Your people have been scattered on the mountains, "" And there is none gathering.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There is no weakening of your destruction, "" Your striking [is] grievous, "" All hearing your fame have clapped the hand at you, "" For over whom did your wickedness not pass continually?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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