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Nahum 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 3
The Woe of Nineveh
Judgment for Nineveh’s Sins
1 Woe to the bloody city!
​​It is all full of lies and robbery.
​​Its victim never departs.
2 ​​The noise of a whip
​​And the noise of rattling wheels,
​​Of galloping horses,
​​Of clattering chariots!
3 ​​Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.
​​There is a multitude of slain,
​​A great number of bodies,
​​Countless corpses—
​​They stumble over the corpses—
4 ​​Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot,
​​The mistress of sorceries,
​​Who sells nations through her harlotries,
​​And families through her sorceries.
​
5 ​​“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts;
​​“I will lift your skirts over your face,
​​I will show the nations your nakedness,
​​And the kingdoms your shame.
6 ​​I will cast abominable filth upon you,
​​Make you vile,
​​And make you a spectacle.
7 ​​It shall come to pass that all who look upon you
​​Will flee from you, and say,
​‘​Nineveh is laid waste!
​​Who will bemoan her?’
​​Where shall I seek comforters for you?”
​
8 ​​Are you better than No Amon[fn]
​​That was situated by the River,[fn]
​​That had the waters around her,
​​Whose rampart was the sea,
​​Whose wall was the sea?
9 ​​Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
​​And it was boundless;
​​Put and Lubim were your[fn] helpers.
10 ​​Yet she was carried away,
​​She went into captivity;
​​Her young children also were dashed to pieces
​​At the head of every street;
​​They cast lots for her honorable men,
​​And all her great men were bound in chains.
11 ​​You also will be drunk;
​​You will be hidden;
​​You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
​
12 ​​All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs:
​​If they are shaken,
​​They fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 ​​Surely, your people in your midst are women!
​​The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies;
​​Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.
​
14 ​​Draw your water for the siege!
​​Fortify your strongholds!
​​Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
​​Make strong the brick kiln!
15 ​​There the fire will devour you,
​​The sword will cut you off;
​​It will eat you up like a locust.
​
​​Make yourself many—like the locust!
​​Make yourself many— like the swarming locusts!
16 ​​You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.
​​The locust plunders and flies away.
17 ​​Your commanders are like swarming locusts,
​​And your generals like great grasshoppers,
​​Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
​​When the sun rises they flee away,
​​And the place where they are is not known.
​
18 ​​Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria;
​​Your nobles rest in the dust.
​​Your people are scattered on the mountains,
​​And no one gathers them.
19 ​​Your injury has no healing,
​​Your wound is severe.
​​All who hear news of you
​​Will clap their hands over you,
​​For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
That is, ancient Thebes; Targum and Vulgate read populous Alexandria.
Literally rivers, that is, the Nile and the surrounding canals
Septuagint reads her.
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