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class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/nahum/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>Nineveh’s Complete Ruin</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies <i>and</i> pillage;<br> <i>Her</i> prey never departs.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>The noise of the whip,<br> The noise of the rattling of the wheel,<br> Galloping horses<br> And bounding chariots!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Horsemen charging,<br> Swords flashing, spears gleaming,<br> Many slain, a mass of corpses,<br> And countless dead bodies—<br> They stumble over the dead bodies!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span><i>All</i> because of the many harlotries of the harlot,<br> The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,<br> Who sells nations by her harlotries<br> And families by her sorceries.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“Behold, I am against you,” declares the L<font size="1">ORD</font> of hosts;<br> “And I will lift up your skirts over your face,<br> And show to the nations your nakedness<br> And to the kingdoms your disgrace.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>“I will throw filth on you<br> And make you vile,<br> And set you up as a spectacle.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>“And it will come about that all who see you<br> Will shrink from you and say,<br> ‘Nineveh is devastated!<br> Who will grieve for her?’<br> Where will I seek comforters for you?”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Are you better than No-amon,<br> Which was situated by the waters of the Nile,<br> With water surrounding her,<br> Whose rampart <i>was</i> the sea,<br> Whose wall <i>consisted</i> of the sea?<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Ethiopia was <i>her</i> might,<br> And Egypt too, without limits.<br> Put and Lubim were among her helpers.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>Yet she became an exile,<br> She went into captivity;<br> Also her small children were dashed to pieces<br> At the head of every street;<br> They cast lots for her honorable men,<br> And all her great men were bound with fetters.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>You too will become drunk,<br> You will be hidden.<br> You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>All your fortifications are fig trees with ripe fruit—<br> When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, your people are women in your midst!<br> The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;<br> Fire consumes your gate bars.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Draw for yourself water for the siege!<br> Strengthen your fortifications!<br> Go into the clay and tread the mortar!<br> Take hold of the brick mold!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>There fire will consume you,<br> The sword will cut you down;<br> It will consume you as the locust <i>does.</i><br> Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,<br> Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—<br> The creeping locust strips and flies away.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Your guardsmen are like the swarming locust.<br> Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers<br> Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.<br> The sun rises and they flee,<br> And the place where they are is not known.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria;<br> Your nobles are lying down.<br> Your people are scattered on the mountains<br> And there is no one to regather <i>them.</i><p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>There is no relief for your breakdown,<br> Your wound is incurable.<br> All who hear about you<br> Will clap <i>their</i> hands over you,<br> For on whom has not your evil passed continually?<br><p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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