Nahum 3 Free Bible Version
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
1 What a disaster is coming upon this murderous city with all its treachery! It is full of wealth it has robbed, and always has plenty of victims.
1 ¡AY de la ciudad de sangres, toda llena de mentira y de rapiña, sin apartarse [de ella] el pillaje!
2 Listen to the noise: whips crack, wheels clatter, horses gallop, chariots rattle!
2 Sonido de látigo, y estruendo de movimiento de ruedas; y caballo atropellador, y carro saltador;
3 Horsemen charge, swords flash, spears glitter! Many dead, piles of corpses, countless bodies—so many that people stumble over them.
3 Caballero enhiesto, y resplandor de espada, y resplandor de lanza; y multitud de muertos, y multitud de cadáveres; y de sus cadáveres no habrá fin, y en sus cadáveres tropezarán:
4 All this happens because the repeated prostitution of Nineveh the prostitute, the beautiful mistress with her deadly charms who seduces nations into slavery by her prostitution and her witchcraft.
4 A causa de la multitud de las fornicaciones de la ramera de hermosa gala, maestra de brujerías, que vende las gentes con sus fornicaciones, y los pueblos con sus hechizos.
5 Watch out! For I am against you, declares the Lord Almighty. I will lift your skirts over your face and let the nations see your nakedness, and kingdoms see your shame.
5 Heme aquí contra ti, dice Jehová de los ejércitos, y descubriré tus faldas en tu cara, y mostraré á las gentes tu desnudez, y á los reinos tu vergüenza.
6 I will throw filth at you. I will treat you with contempt, and make a spectacle of you.
6 Y echaré sobre ti suciedades, y te afrentaré, y te pondré como estiércol.
7 Then everyone who sees you will shun you saying, “Nineveh is ruined! But who is going to mourn your loss?” Where should I look to find anyone to comfort you?
7 Y será que todos los que te vieren, se apartarán de ti, y dirán: Nínive es asolada: ¿quién se compadecerá de ella? ¿dónde te buscaré consoladores?
8 Are you any better than the city of Thebes on the River Nile, surrounded by water? Water was its defense, water was its wall.
8 ¿Eres tú mejor que No-amón, que estaba asentada entre ríos, cercada de aguas, cuyo baluarte era la mar, [y] del mar su muralla?
9 The city ruled Egypt and Ethiopia. Put and Libya were its allies.
9 Etiopía era su fortaleza, y Egipto sin límite; Put y Libia fueron en tu ayuda.
10 Yet its people were also taken away into exile, into captivity. Their babies were dashed to pieces in every street. Their nobles were bound in chains and taken away as servants, chosen by lot.
10 También ella fué llevada en cautiverio: también sus chiquitos fueron estrellados en las encrucijadas de todas las calles; y sobre sus varones echaron suertes, y todos sus magnates fueron aprisionados con grillos.
11 You too will behave like a drunk. You will hide in fear, trying to find a place safe from the enemy.
11 Tú también serás embriagada, serás encerrada; tú también buscarás fortaleza á causa del enemigo.
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees ripe with fruit—they fall when they are shaken into the mouth of the one eating.
12 Todas tus fortalezas cual higueras con brevas; que si las sacuden, caen en la boca del que las ha de comer.
13 Look! Your soldiers are women among you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; the bars of the gates will be set on fire.
13 He aquí, tu pueblo será como mujeres en medio de ti: las puertas de tu tierra se abrirán de par en par á tus enemigos: fuego consumirá tus barras.
14 Store water to prepare for a siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go to the clay pits to tread it well, mix the cement, get your brick molds ready!
14 Provéete de agua para el cerco, fortifica tus fortalezas; entra en el lodo, pisa el barro, fortifica el horno.
15 But even so, there the fire will consume you, you will be cut down by the sword. You will be destroyed as if you were devoured by a swarm of locusts. So multiply yourselves like locusts, like a swarm of locusts.
15 Allí te consumirá el fuego, te talará la espada, te devorará como pulgón: multiplícate como langosta, multiplícate como langosta.
16 You increased your merchants so that there are more of them than the stars of heaven. But like locusts they strip everything and then fly away.
16 Multiplicaste tus mercaderes más que las estrellas del cielo: el pulgón hizo presa, y voló.
17 Your leaders are like locusts, your officials like a swarm of locusts. They rest on walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away, and no one knows where they've gone.
17 Tus príncipes serán como langostas, y tus grandes como langostas de langostas que se sientan en vallados en día de frío: salido el sol se mudan, y no se conoce el lugar donde estuvieron.
18 King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep, your princes are slumbering. Your people are scattered across the mountains and no one can gather them.
18 Durmieron tus pastores, oh rey de Asiria, reposaron tus valientes: tu pueblo se derramó por los montes, y no hay quien lo junte.
19 There is no way to heal your injuries, you are too badly wounded. Everyone who hears this news will applaud what has happened to you, for was there anyone who escaped your continuous cruelty?
19 No hay cura para tu quebradura; tu herida se encrudeció: todos los que oyeron tu fama, batirán las manos sobre ti, porque ¿sobre quién no pasó continuamente tu malicia?
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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