Nahum 3:1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!

English Standard Version
Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!

New American Standard Bible
Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs.

King James Bible
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to the city of blood, totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey.

International Standard Version
Woe to this city, contaminated with shed blood, all full of lies and robberies— it is never without victims!

American Standard Version
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.

Darby Bible Translation
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and violence; the prey departeth not.

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies -- burglary -- full, Prey doth not depart.

Cross References

Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Ezekiel 24:6
Why thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall on it.

Ezekiel 24:9
Therefore thus said the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.

Nahum 2:13
Behold, I am against you, said the LORD of hosts, and I will burn her chariots in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions: and I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall no more be heard.

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that builds a town with blood, and establishes a city by iniquity!

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

3:1-7 When proud sinners are brought down, others should learn not to lift themselves up. The fall of this great city should be a lesson to private persons, who increase wealth by fraud and oppression. They are preparing enemies for themselves; and if the Lord sees good to punish them in this world, they will have none to pity them. Every man who seeks his own prosperity, safety, and peace, should not only act in an upright, honourable manner, but with kindness to all.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

CHAPTER 3

Na 3:1-19. Repetition of Nineveh's Doom, with New Features; the Cause Is Her Tyranny, Rapine, and Cruelty: No-ammon's Fortifications Did Not Save Her; It Is Vain, Therefore, for Nineveh to Think Her Defenses Will Secure Her against God's Sentence.

1. the bloody city!—literally, "city of blood," namely, shed by Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to be shed.

robbery—violence [Maurer]. Extortion [Grotius].

the prey departeth not—Nineveh never ceases to live by rapine. Or, the Hebrew verb is transitive, "she (Nineveh) does not make the prey depart"; she ceases not to plunder.