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Nahum 3:1 (NET) New English Translation

1 Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!
2 The chariot drivers will crack their whips; the chariot wheels will shake the ground; the chariot horses will gallop; the war chariots will bolt forward!
3 The charioteers will charge ahead; their swords will flash and their spears will glimmer! There will be many people slain; there will be piles of the dead, and countless casualties� so many that people will stumble over the corpses.
4 "Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute� a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery�
5 I am against you," declares the LORD who commands armies. "I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms;
6 I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.
7 Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, 'Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?' There will be no one to comfort you!"
8 You are no more secure than Thebes� she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her, her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.
9 Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.
10 Yet she went into captivity as an exile; even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her nobility; all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
11 You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit: If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater!
13 Your warriors will be like women in your midst; the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies; fire will consume the bars of your gates.
14 Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
15 There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would. Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!
16 Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust which sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your courtiers are like locusts, your officials are like a swarm of locusts! They encamp in the walls on a cold day, yet when the sun rises, they fly away; and no one knows where they are.
18 Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria! Your officers are slumbering! Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains and there is no one to regather them!
19 Your destruction is like an incurable wound; your demise is like a fatal injury! All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy, for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
1 Woe H1945 to the bloody H1818 city H5892 ! it is all H3605 full H4392 of lies H3585 and robbery; H6563 the prey H2964 departeth H4185 not; H3808
2 The noise H6963 of a whip, H7752 and the noise H6963 of the rattling H7494 of the wheels, H212 and of the prancing H1725 horses, H5483 and of the jumping H7540 chariots. H4818
3 The horseman H6571 lifteth up H5927 both the bright H3851 sword H2719 and the glittering H1300 spear: H2595 and there is a multitude H7230 of slain, H2491 and a great number H3514 of carcasses; H6297 and there is none H369 end H7097 of their corpses; H1472 they stumble H3782 upon their corpses: H1472
4 Because of the multitude H4480 H7230 of the whoredoms H2183 of the well favored H2896 H2580 harlot, H2181 the mistress H1172 of witchcrafts, H3785 that selleth H4376 nations H1471 through her whoredoms, H2183 and families H4940 through her witchcrafts. H3785
5 Behold H2009 , I am against H413 thee, saith H5002 the LORD H3068 of hosts; H6635 and I will discover H1540 thy skirts H7757 upon H5921 thy face, H6440 and I will show H7200 the nations H1471 thy nakedness, H4626 and the kingdoms H4467 thy shame. H7036
6 And I will cast H7993 abominable filth H8251 upon H5921 thee , and make thee vile, H5034 and will set H7760 thee as a gazingstock. H7210
7 And it shall come to pass, H1961 that all H3605 they that look upon H7200 thee shall flee H5074 from H4480 thee , and say, H559 Nineveh H5210 is laid waste: H7703 who H4310 will bemoan H5110 her? whence H4480 H370 shall I seek H1245 comforters H5162 for thee?
8 Art thou better H3190 than populous H528 No H4480 H4996 , that was situate H3427 among the rivers, H2975 that had the waters H4325 round about H5439 it, whose H834 rampart H2426 was the sea, H3220 and her wall H2346 was from the sea H4480 H3220 ?
9 Ethiopia H3568 and Egypt H4714 were her strength, H6109 and it was infinite H369 H7097 ; Put H6316 and Lubim H3864 were H1961 thy helpers. H5833
10 Yet H1571 was she H1931 carried away, H1473 she went H1980 into captivity: H7628 her young children H5768 also H1571 were dashed in pieces H7376 at the top H7218 of all H3605 the streets: H2351 and they cast H3032 lots H1486 for H5921 her honorable men, H3513 and all H3605 her great men H1419 were bound H7576 in chains. H2131
11 Thou H859 also H1571 shalt be drunken: H7937 thou shalt be H1961 hid, H5956 thou H859 also H1571 shalt seek H1245 strength H4581 because of the enemy H4480 H341 .
12 All H3605 thy strongholds H4013 shall be like fig trees H8384 with H5973 the firstripe figs: H1061 if H518 they be shaken, H5128 they shall even fall H5307 into H5921 the mouth H6310 of the eater. H398
13 Behold H2009 , thy people H5971 in the midst H7130 of thee are women: H802 the gates H8179 of thy land H776 shall be set wide open H6605 H6605 unto thine enemies: H341 the fire H784 shall devour H398 thy bars. H1280
14 Draw H7579 thee waters H4325 for the siege, H4692 fortify H2388 thy strongholds: H4013 go H935 into clay, H2916 and tread H7429 the mortar, H2563 make strong H2388 the brickkiln. H4404
15 There H8033 shall the fire H784 devour H398 thee ; the sword H2719 shall cut thee off, H3772 it shall eat thee up H398 like the cankerworm: H3218 make thyself many H3513 as the cankerworm, H3218 make thyself many H3513 as the locusts. H697
16 Thou hast multiplied H7235 thy merchants H7402 above the stars H4480 H3556 of heaven: H8064 the cankerworm H3218 spoileth, H6584 and flieth away. H5774
17 Thy crowned H4502 are as the locusts, H697 and thy captains H2951 as the great grasshoppers H1462 H1462 , which camp H2583 in the hedges H1448 in the cold H7135 day, H3117 but when the sun H8121 ariseth H2224 they flee away, H5074 and their place H4725 is not known H3045 H3808 where H335 they are .
18 Thy shepherds H7462 slumber, H5123 O king H4428 of Assyria: H804 thy nobles H117 shall dwell H7931 in the dust : thy people H5971 is scattered H6335 upon H5921 the mountains, H2022 and no man H369 gathereth H6908 them .
19 There is no H369 healing H3545 of thy bruise; H7667 thy wound H4347 is grievous: H2470 all H3605 that hear H8085 the bruit H8088 of thee shall clap H8628 the hands H3709 over H5921 thee: for H3588 upon H5921 whom H4310 hath not H3808 thy wickedness H7451 passed H5674 continually H8548 ?
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