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Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Art thou better than No-amon,</div><div class="po2">That was situate among the rivers,</div><div class="po2">That had the waters round about her;</div><div class="po2">Whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea her wall?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Ethiopia and Egypt were thy strength, and it was infinite;</div><div class="po2">Put and Lubim were thy helpers.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Yet was she carried away,</div><div class="po2">She went into captivity;</div><div class="po2">Her young children also were dashed in pieces</div><div class="po2">At the head of all the streets;</div><div class="po2">And they cast lots for her honourable men,</div><div class="po2">And all her great men were bound in chains.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Thou also shalt be drunken,</div><div class="po2">Thou shalt swoon;</div><div class="po2">Thou also shalt seek a refuge</div><div class="po2">Because of the enemy.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs:</div><div class="po2">If they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women;</div><div class="po2">The gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies;</div><div class="po2">The fire hath devoured thy bars.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Draw thee water for the siege,</div><div class="po2">Strengthen thy fortresses;</div><div class="po2">Go into the clay, and tread the mortar,</div><div class="po2">Lay hold of the brickmould.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>There shall the fire devour thee;</div><div class="po2">The sword shall cut thee off,</div><div class="po2">It shall devour thee like the canker-worm;</div><div class="po2">Make thyself many as the canker-worm,</div><div class="po2">Make thyself many as the locusts.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Thou hast multiplied thy merchants</div><div class="po2">Above the stars of heaven;</div><div class="po2">The canker-worm spreadeth itself, and flieth away.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Thy crowned are as the locusts,</div><div class="po2">And thy marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers,</div><div class="po2">Which camp in the walls in the cold day,</div><div class="po2">But when the sun ariseth they flee away,</div><div class="po2">And their place is not known where they are.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria,</div><div class="po2">Thy worthies are at rest;</div><div class="po2">Thy people are scattered upon the mountains,</div><div class="po2">And there is none to gather them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/nahum/3-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>There is no assuaging of thy hurt,</div><div class="po2">Thy wound is grievous;</div><div class="po2">All that hear the report of thee</div><div class="po2">Clap the hands over thee;</div><div class="po2">For upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible 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