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title="Nahum 2">◄</a> Nahum 3 <a href="../habakkuk/1.htm" title="Habakkuk 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/nahum/3.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Woe to Nineveh</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Woe to the bloody city,</span><br /><span class="indent">all full of lies and plunder—</span><br /><span class="indent">no end to the prey!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The crack of the whip, and rumble of the wheel,</span><br /><span class="indent">galloping horse and bounding chariot!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Horsemen charging,</span><br /><span class="indent">flashing sword and glittering spear,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">hosts of slain,</span><br /><span class="indent">heaps of corpses,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">dead bodies without end—</span><br /><span class="indent">they stumble over the bodies!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And all for the countless whorings of the prostitute,</span><br /><span class="indent">graceful and of deadly charms,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who betrays nations with her whorings,</span><br /><span class="indent">and peoples with her charms.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, I am against you,</span><br /><span class="indent">declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> of hosts,</span><br /><span class="indent">and will lift up your skirts over your face;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will make nations look at your nakedness</span><br /><span class="indent">and kingdoms at your shame.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will throw filth at you</span><br /><span class="indent">and treat you with contempt</span><br /><span class="indent">and make you a spectacle.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And all who look at you will shrink from you and say,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?”</span><br /><span class="indent">Where shall I seek comforters for you?</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Are you better than Thebes<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew No-amon">a</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">that sat by the Nile,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">with water around her,</span><br /><span class="indent">her rampart a sea,</span><br /><span class="indent">and water her wall?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Cush was her strength;</span><br /><span class="indent">Egypt too, and that without limit;</span><br /><span class="indent">Put and the Libyans were her<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew your">b</a></sup></span> helpers.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Yet she became an exile;</span><br /><span class="indent">she went into captivity;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">her infants were dashed in pieces</span><br /><span class="indent">at the head of every street;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">for her honored men lots were cast,</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">You also will be drunken;</span><br /><span class="indent">you will go into hiding;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">you will seek a refuge from the enemy.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All your fortresses are like fig trees</span><br /><span class="indent">with first-ripe figs—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">if shaken they fall</span><br /><span class="indent">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><span class="ln-group">Behold, your troops</span><br /><span class="indent">are women in your midst.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">The gates of your land</span><br /><span class="indent">are wide open to your enemies;</span><br /><span class="indent">fire has devoured your bars.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Draw water for the siege;</span><br /><span class="indent">strengthen your forts;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">go into the clay;</span><br /><span class="indent">tread the mortar;</span><br /><span class="indent">take hold of the brick mold!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There will the fire devour you;</span><br /><span class="indent">the sword will cut you off.</span><br /><span class="indent">It will devour you like the locust.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Multiply yourselves like the locust;</span><br /><span class="indent">multiply like the grasshopper!</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You increased your merchants</span><br /><span class="indent">more than the stars of the heavens.</span><br /><span class="indent">The locust spreads its wings and flies away.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your princes are like grasshoppers,</span><br /><span class="indent">your scribes<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or marshals">c</a></sup></span> like clouds of locusts</span><br /><span class="ln-group">settling on the fences</span><br /><span class="indent">in a day of cold—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">when the sun rises, they fly away;</span><br /><span class="indent">no one knows where they are.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Your shepherds are asleep,</span><br /><span class="indent">O king of Assyria;</span><br /><span class="indent">your nobles slumber.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Your people are scattered on the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent">with none to gather them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">There is no easing your hurt;</span><br /><span class="indent">your wound is grievous.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">All who hear the news about you</span><br /><span class="indent">clap their hands over you.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For upon whom has not come</span><br /><span class="indent">your unceasing evil?</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Hebrew <i>No-amon</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> Hebrew <i>your</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">17</span> Or <i>marshals</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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