Nahum 3:1-10 ▼

1 Wo! to the city of bloods: all of it was filled with falsehood, with violence; the prey will not withdraw.

2 The voice of the whip and the voice of the shaking of the wheel, and the horse moving swiftly, and the chariot bounding.

3 The horsemen also lifting up the flame of the sword, and the lightning of the spear: and a multitude of wounded, and the heavy carcass; and no end to the corpses; they shall stumble upon their dead bodies.

4 From the multitude of the fornications of the fair harlot, the beauty of the mistress of sorceries, selling the nations by her fornication, and families by her sorceries.

5 Behold me against thee, says Jehovah of armies; and I uncovered thy skirts upon thy face, and I caused nations to see thy nakedness, and kingdoms thy shame.

6 And I cast abominable things upon thee, and I disgraced thee, and I set thee as a sight.

7 And it was all serving thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh was laid waste: who shall be moved for her? from whom shall I seek those consoling to thee?

8 Wilt thou be good above No, the builder dwelling among the rivers, the waters round about to her, whose strength the sea, from the sea her wall?

9 Cush her strength, and Egypt, and no end; Put and Lubim were among thy helpers.

10 Also she being carried away captive went into captivity: also her young children shall be dashed in pieces at the head of every street, and upon her honored ones they cast the lot, and all her great ones were bound in chains.