Nahum 3 Darby Translation
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Nahum is not in PT1904.
1 Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and] violence; the prey departeth not.
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2 The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!
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3 The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses.
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4 — Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,
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5 behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
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7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
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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 was her wall?
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9 Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.
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10 She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains.
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11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.
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12 All thy strongholds are [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are [as] women: the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire devoureth thy bars.
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14 Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
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15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.
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16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
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17 Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
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18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
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19 There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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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
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