Nahum 3 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Nineveh's Complete Ruin

Nah 3:1Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;
Her prey never departs.

Nah 3:2The noise of the whip,
The noise of the rattling of the wheel,
Galloping horses
And [fn]bounding chariots!

Nah 3:3Horsemen charging,
Swords flashing, spears gleaming,
Many slain, a mass of corpses,
And [fn]countless dead bodies—
They stumble over [fn]the dead bodies!

Nah 3:4

Nah 3:4All because of the many harlotries of the harlot,
The charming one, the mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations by her harlotries
And families by her sorceries.

Nah 3:5

Nah 3:5“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of hosts;
“And I will [fn]lift up your skirts over your face,
And show to the nations your nakedness
And to the kingdoms your disgrace.

Nah 3:6

Nah 3:6“I will throw [fn]filth on you
And make you vile,
And set you up as a spectacle.

Nah 3:7

Nah 3:7“And it will come about that all who see you
Will [fn]shrink from you and say,
‘Nineveh is devastated!
Who will grieve for her?’
Where will I seek comforters for you?”

Nah 3:8

Nah 3:8Are you better than [fn]No-amon,
Which was situated by the waters of the Nile,
With water surrounding her,
Whose rampart was [fn]the sea,
Whose wall consisted of [fn]the sea?

Nah 3:9

Nah 3:9Ethiopia was her might,
And Egypt too, without limits.
Put and Lubim were among [fn]her helpers.

Nah 3:10

Nah 3:10Yet she became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her small children were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with fetters.

Nah 3:11

Nah 3:11You too will become drunk,
You will be hidden.
You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.

Nah 3:12

Nah 3:12All your fortifications are fig trees with [fn]ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.

Nah 3:13

Nah 3:13Behold, your people are women in your midst!
The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes your gate bars.

Nah 3:14

Nah 3:14Draw for yourself water for the siege!
Strengthen your fortifications!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!

Nah 3:15

Nah 3:15There fire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will consume you as the locust does.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.

Nah 3:16

Nah 3:16You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust [fn]strips and flies away.

Nah 3:17

Nah 3:17Your [fn]guardsmen are like the swarming locust.
Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers
Settling in the stone walls on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.

Nah 3:18

Nah 3:18Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles are lying down.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to regather them.

Nah 3:19

Nah 3:19There is no relief for your breakdown,
Your wound is incurable.
All who hear [fn]about you
Will clap their hands over you,
For on whom has not your evil passed continually?

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NASB95 Footnotes

(3:2)

Literally: skipping

(3:3)

Literally: there is no end to

(3:3)

Literally: their

(3:5)

Literally: uncover your

(3:6)

Literally: detestable things

(3:7)

Literally: flee

(3:8)

I.e. the city of Amon: Thebes

(3:8)

I.e. the Nile

(3:9)

Literally: your

(3:12)

Literally: first fruits

(3:16)

I.e. strips vegetation; or molts

(3:17)

Or, officials

(3:19)

Literally: your report

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Nineveh's Complete Ruin

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