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Nahum 3
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Nahum 3 . 1
1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.TOSKNahum 3:1
Nahum 3 . 2
2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!TOSKNahum 3:2
Nahum 3 . 3
3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—TOSKNahum 3:3
Nahum 3 . 4
4 because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.TOSKNahum 3:4
Nahum 3 . 5
5 "Behold, I am against you," declares the LORD of Hosts. "I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.TOSKNahum 3:5
Nahum 3 . 6
6 I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.TOSKNahum 3:6
Nahum 3 . 7
7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”TOSKNahum 3:7
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8 Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?TOSKNahum 3:8
Nahum 3 . 9
9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.TOSKNahum 3:9
Nahum 3 . 10
10 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.TOSKNahum 3:10
Nahum 3 . 11
11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.TOSKNahum 3:11
Nahum 3 . 12
12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!TOSKNahum 3:12
Nahum 3 . 13
13 Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.TOSKNahum 3:13
Nahum 3 . 14
14 Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!TOSKNahum 3:14
Nahum 3 . 15
15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!TOSKNahum 3:15
Nahum 3 . 16
16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.TOSKNahum 3:16
Nahum 3 . 17
17 Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.TOSKNahum 3:17
Nahum 3 . 18
18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.TOSKNahum 3:18
Nahum 3 . 19
19 There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?TOSKNahum 3:19