Nahum 3:1-10 ▼

1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!

3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—

4 because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.

5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD {YHWH} of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

6 I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh (abode of Ninus) is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”

8 Are you better than Thebes (disrupting) \No-amon/, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?

9 Cush (the upper Nile region) and Egypt (land of bondage) were her boundless strength; Put (a bow) and Libya (empty-hearted Da 11:43 / afflicted Jer 46:9) were her allies.

10 Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.