Nahum 3 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Nineveh's Complete Ruin

Nah 3:1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.

Nah 3:2The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

Nah 3:3the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,

Nah 3:4

Nah 3:4because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.

Nah 3:5

Nah 3:5"Behold, I am against you," says the LORD of Hosts, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.

Nah 3:6

Nah 3:6I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.

Nah 3:7

Nah 3:7It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"

Nah 3:8

Nah 3:8Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

Nah 3:9

Nah 3:9Kush and Mitzrayim were her boundless strength. Put and Luvim were her helpers.

Nah 3:10

Nah 3:10Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Nah 3:11

Nah 3:11You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.

Nah 3:12

Nah 3:12All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

Nah 3:13

Nah 3:13Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.

Nah 3:14

Nah 3:14Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.

Nah 3:15

Nah 3:15There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the khagav. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the arbeh.

Nah 3:16

Nah 3:16You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.

Nah 3:17

Nah 3:17Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Nah 3:18

Nah 3:18Your shepherds slumber, king of Ashshur. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.

Nah 3:19

Nah 3:19There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?

The Hebrew Names Version is based off the World English Bible, an update of the American Standard Version of 1901. This version of the Bible is in the public domain.

Pericope

Nahum Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras

Nahum 3 :: Hebrew Names Version (HNV)

Nineveh's Complete Ruin

Pericope

Nahum Chapter 3 — Additional Translations:

Did You Know BLB Is User Supported?