Nahum 3:1-10 ▼

1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; The prey departeth not.

2 Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; And prancing horses, and bounding chariots;

3 The horseman charging, And the flashing sword, and the glittering spear; And a multitude of slain, and a heap of carcases; And there is no end of the corpses, and they stumble upon their corpses;

4 Because of the multitude of the harlotries of the well-favoured harlot, The mistress of witchcrafts, That selleth nations through her harlotries, And families through her witchcrafts.

5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts, And I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, And I will shew the nations thy nakedness, And the kingdoms thy shame.

6 And I will cast detestable things upon thee, and make thee vile, And will make thee as dung.

7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee Shall flee from thee, And say: 'Nineveh is laid waste; Who will bemoan her? Whence shall I seek comforters for thee?'

8 Art thou better than No-amon, That was situate among the rivers, That had the waters round about her; Whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea her wall?

9 Ethiopia and Egypt were thy strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

10 Yet 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 honourable men, And all her great men were bound in chains.