Nahum 3

The Doom of the Wicked City is Certain

1Woe to the city that has shed much blood![#Literally “bloods”]

She is filled with plunder,

2The crack of the whip!

The galloping of the horse!

3Chariots charge!

Many corpses are piled high!

Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves

4“Because of the many idolatries of the prostitute,

she who enslaves nations by her harlotries,

5“Look! I am against you!” declaresYahweh.[#Literally “a declaration of”]

6“I will throw filth upon you,

7“And it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you,

Who will mourn for her?

Nineveh Will Suffer the Same Fate She Inflicted on Thebes

8Are you better than Thebes?[#Hebrew “No-Amon”]

her rampart was the sea and water was her wall.

9Cush was her strength, Egypt without end;

10Yet she went into captivity as an exile;

they cast lots for all of her nobles;

11You also will behave like a drunkard;

Nineveh’s Defenses Will Fail

12All of your fortifications are like fig trees with ripe firstfruits—

13Look! Your troops are like women in your midst.

14Draw water for a siege!

Go to the mud pit!

15There fire will consume you;

Nineveh’s Defenders Will Flee

Multiply yourself like the locust!

16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of heaven;

17Your officials are like locusts;

They encamp on the walls on a cold day;

Nineveh Will Come to an End

18Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria!

Your people are scattered on the mountains;

19There is no healing for your wound;

All who hear the report of you will clap their hands for joy concerning you,

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