Nahum 3 Berean Standard Bible
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Nahum is not in PT1904.
1 Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
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2 The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
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3 Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
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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.
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5 “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
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6 I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
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7 Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
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8 Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
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9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.
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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.
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11 You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
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12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
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13 Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
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14 Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
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15 There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
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16 You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
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17 Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
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18 O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
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19 There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?
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Cross references (19)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Habakkuk 2:12; Zephaniah 3:1–3; Ezekiel 24:6–9; Hosea 4:2; Ezekiel 22:2–3
- 2 Jeremiah 47:3; Nahum 2:3–4; Judges 5:22; Job 39:22–25; Isaiah 9:5
- 3 Ezekiel 39:4; Habakkuk 3:11; Isaiah 34:3; Isaiah 37:36; Genesis 3:24
- 4 Isaiah 47:9; Isaiah 47:12–13; Revelation 18:2–3; Revelation 17:1–5; Revelation 18:23
- 5 Jeremiah 13:26; Jeremiah 13:22; Ezekiel 23:29; Nahum 2:13; Isaiah 47:2–3
- 6 Malachi 2:9; Psalm 38:5–7; Jeremiah 51:37; Job 9:31; Nahum 1:14
- 7 Isaiah 51:19; Jeremiah 15:5; Revelation 18:10; Lamentations 2:13; Jeremiah 51:9
- 8 Amos 6:2; Ezekiel 30:14–16; Ezekiel 31:2–3; Isaiah 19:5–10; Jeremiah 46:25–26
- 9 Ezekiel 30:5; Ezekiel 27:10; Genesis 10:6; Isaiah 20:5; Ezekiel 38:5
- 10 Isaiah 20:4; Hosea 13:16; Obadiah 11; Joel 3:3; Isaiah 13:16
- 11 Luke 23:30; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 2:10; Nahum 1:10; Jeremiah 4:5
- 12 Revelation 6:13; Isaiah 28:4; Habakkuk 1:10
- 13 Jeremiah 51:30; Jeremiah 50:37; Isaiah 19:16; Nahum 2:6; Isaiah 45:1–2
- 14 Nahum 2:1; 2 Chronicles 32:3–4; Jeremiah 46:3–4; Jeremiah 46:9; Joel 3:9–11
- 15 Joel 1:4; Nahum 3:13; Nahum 2:13; Joel 2:25; Zephaniah 2:13
- 16 Genesis 15:5; Genesis 22:17; Jeremiah 33:22; Nehemiah 9:23
- 17 Jeremiah 51:27; Revelation 9:7
- 18 1 Kings 22:17; Psalm 76:5–6; Jeremiah 50:18; Jeremiah 51:57; Isaiah 13:14
- 19 Micah 1:9; Lamentations 2:15; Job 27:23; Isaiah 37:18; Jeremiah 46:11
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences