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Nahum 3 Brenton's Septuagint Translation
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whence shall I seek comfort for her?<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight <i>of her enemies</i>; and the Libyans became her helpers.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious <i>possessions</i>, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself strength because of <i>thine</i> enemies.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall 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, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make <i>the fortifications</i> stronger than brick.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked <i>it</i>, and has flown away.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thy mixed <i>multitude</i> has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive <i>them</i>.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../nahum/2.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Nahum 2"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Nahum 2" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../habakkuk/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Habakkuk 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Habakkuk 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>