Nahum 3 - English Standard Version (ESV)

Woe to Nineveh

3 Woe to (A)the bloody city,
all full of lies and plunder—
(B)no end to the prey!
2 The crack of the whip, and (C)rumble of the wheel,
(D)galloping horse and (E)bounding chariot!
3 Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and (F)glittering spear,
(G)hosts of slain,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!
4 And all for the countless whorings of the (H)prostitute,
(I)graceful and of deadly charms,
who betrays nations with her whorings,
and peoples with her charms.

5 (J)Behold, I am against you,
declares the Lord of hosts,
and (K)will lift up your skirts over your face;
and I will make nations look at (L)your nakedness
and kingdoms at your shame.
6 I will throw filth at you
and (M)treat you with contempt
and make you (N)a spectacle.
7 And all who look at you (O)will shrink from you and say,
“Wasted is (P)Nineveh; (Q)who will grieve for her?”
(R)Where shall I seek comforters for you?

8 (S)Are you better than (T)Thebes[a]
that sat (U)by the Nile,
with water around her,
her rampart a sea,
and water her wall?
9 (V)Cush was her strength;
Egypt too, and that without limit;
(W)Put and the (X)Libyans were her[b] helpers.

10 (Y)Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity;
(Z)her infants were dashed in pieces
at the head of every street;
for her honored men (AA)lots were cast,
(AB)and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 (AC)You also will be drunken;
you will go into hiding;
(AD)you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortresses are (AE)like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops
(AF)are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has devoured your bars.

14 (AG)Draw water for the siege;
(AH)strengthen your forts;
go into the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
15 There will the fire devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will (AI)devour you (AJ)like the locust.
Multiply yourselves (AK)like the locust;
multiply (AL)like the grasshopper!
16 You increased (AM)your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
(AN)The locust spreads its wings and flies away.

17 Your (AO)princes are (AP)like grasshoppers,
(AQ)your scribes[c] like clouds of locusts
settling on the fences
in a day of cold—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they are.

18 Your shepherds (AR)are asleep,
O king of Assyria;
(AS)your nobles slumber.
Your people (AT)are scattered on the mountains
with none to gather them.
19 There is no easing your hurt;
(AU)your wound is grievous.
All who hear the news about you
(AV)clap their hands over you.
For (AW)upon whom has not come
your unceasing evil?

Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:8 Hebrew No-amon
  2. Nahum 3:9 Hebrew your
  3. Nahum 3:17 Or marshals

Cross references

  1. Nahum 3:1 : Ezek. 24:9; [Hab. 2:12]
  2. Nahum 3:1 : [ch. 2:12]
  3. Nahum 3:2 : [ch. 2:4]
  4. Nahum 3:2 : [Judg. 5:22]
  5. Nahum 3:2 : [Joel 2:5]
  6. Nahum 3:3 : Hab. 3:11
  7. Nahum 3:3 : [2 Kgs. 19:35]
  8. Nahum 3:4 : [Rev. 17:2; 18:3]
  9. Nahum 3:4 : [Isa. 47:9, 12]
  10. Nahum 3:5 : [See ch. 2:13 above]; ch. 3:5; [Zeph. 2:5]; See Ezek. 13:8
  11. Nahum 3:5 : Jer. 13:22, 26; [Isa. 3:17; 47:3]
  12. Nahum 3:5 : Hab. 2:16
  13. Nahum 3:6 : Mal. 2:9; [ch. 1:14]
  14. Nahum 3:6 : Heb. 10:33; [1 Cor. 4:9]
  15. Nahum 3:7 : Jer. 51:9; Rev. 18:10
  16. Nahum 3:7 : [Zeph. 2:13]; See ch. 1:1
  17. Nahum 3:7 : Isa. 51:19; Jer. 15:5
  18. Nahum 3:7 : Lam. 1:2, 9, 16, 17, 21
  19. Nahum 3:8 : [Amos 6:2]
  20. Nahum 3:8 : Jer. 46:25
  21. Nahum 3:8 : [Ezek. 29:3]
  22. Nahum 3:9 : See Dan. 11:43
  23. Nahum 3:9 : Gen. 10:6
  24. Nahum 3:9 : See 2 Chr. 12:3
  25. Nahum 3:10 : Isa. 20:4
  26. Nahum 3:10 : Isa. 13:16
  27. Nahum 3:10 : Joel 3:3; Obad. 11
  28. Nahum 3:10 : [Ps. 149:8]
  29. Nahum 3:11 : Jer. 25:17, 27; [Ps. 75:8; Isa. 51:17; Obad. 16]
  30. Nahum 3:11 : [Jer. 4:5, 6]
  31. Nahum 3:12 : [Rev. 6:13]
  32. Nahum 3:13 : Isa. 19:16; Jer. 51:30
  33. Nahum 3:14 : [Isa. 22:11]
  34. Nahum 3:14 : [See ver. 11 above]; [Jer. 4:5, 6]
  35. Nahum 3:15 : [Joel 2:3]
  36. Nahum 3:15 : [Joel 1:4, 6]
  37. Nahum 3:15 : [Joel 1:4, 6]
  38. Nahum 3:15 : [Joel 1:4, 6]
  39. Nahum 3:16 : [Ezek. 27:23, 24]
  40. Nahum 3:16 : [See ver. 15 above]; [Joel 1:4, 6]
  41. Nahum 3:17 : [Isa. 10:8]
  42. Nahum 3:17 : [See ver. 15 above]; [Joel 1:4, 6]
  43. Nahum 3:17 : Jer. 51:27
  44. Nahum 3:18 : [Ps. 76:5]
  45. Nahum 3:18 : ch. 2:5
  46. Nahum 3:18 : [1 Kgs. 22:17]
  47. Nahum 3:19 : Jer. 10:19; Mic. 1:9
  48. Nahum 3:19 : Lam. 2:15; [Zeph. 2:15]
  49. Nahum 3:19 : [Isa. 37:18]

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