Nahum - Chapter 3 | King James Version (KJV)

  • 1. Woe to the bloody city! it {cf15I is} all full of lies {cf15I and} robbery; the prey departeth not;
  • 2. The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
  • 3. The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and {cf15I there is} a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and {cf15I there is} none end of {cf15I their} corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
  • 4. Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
  • 5. Behold, I {cf15I am} against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
  • 6. And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
  • 7. And it shall come to pass, {cf15I that} all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
  • 8. Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, {cf15I that had} the waters round about it, whose rampart {cf15I was} the sea, {cf15I and} her wall {cf15I was} from the sea?
  • 9. Ethiopia and Egypt {cf15I were} her strength, and {cf15I it was} infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
  • 10. Yet {cf15I was} she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
  • 11. Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
  • 12. All thy strong holds {cf15I shall be like} fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
  • 13. Behold, thy people in the midst of thee {cf15I are} women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
  • 14. Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
  • 15. There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
  • 16. Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
  • 17. Thy crowned {cf15I are} as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, {cf15I but} when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they {cf15I are}.
  • 18. Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell {cf15I in the dust}: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth {cf15I them}.
  • 19. {cf15I There is} no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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