Nahum 3:1-10 ▼

1 Woe to the city of bloodshed, completely full of deception and pillage; Her prey never departs.

2 The sound of the whip, And the sound of the rumbling of the wheel, Galloping horses, And bounding chariots!

3 Horsemen charging, And swords flaming, and spears flashing, Many slain, a mass of corpses, And there is no end to dead bodies— They stumble over the dead bodies!

4 All 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.

5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares Yahweh of hosts; “And I will uncover your skirts over your face And show to the nations your nakedness And to the kingdoms your disgrace.

6 I will throw detestable filth on you And display you as a wicked fool And set you up as a spectacle.

7 And it will be that all who see you Will flee from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated! Who will console her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”

8 Are you better than No-amon, Which sits along the waters of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was the sea, Whose wall consisted of the sea?

9 Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without end. Put and Lubim were among her helpers.

10 Yet she became an exile; She went into captivity; Also her infants 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.