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Nahum 3 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

Nineveh’s Complete Ruin

3 ^(A)Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;
Her prey does not leave.
²The ^(B)sound of the whip,
The sound of the roar of the wheel,
Galloping horses
And ^[a]bounding chariots!
³Horsemen charging,
Swords flashing, ^(C)spears gleaming,
^(D)Many killed, a mass of corpses,
And there is ^(E)no end to the dead bodies—
They stumble over ^[b]the dead bodies!
⁴All because of the ^(F)many sexual acts of the prostitute,
The charming one, the ^(G)mistress of sorceries,
Who ^(H)sells nations by her sexual acts,
And families by her sorceries.
⁵“Behold, ^(I)I am against you,” declares the Lord of armies;
“And I will ^[c]^(J)lift up your skirts over your face,
And ^(K)show the nations your nakedness,
And the kingdoms your shame.
⁶I will ^(L)throw filth on you
And ^(M)declare you worthless,
And set you up as a ^(N)spectacle.
⁷And it will come about that all who see you
Will ^[d]shrink from you and say,
‘Nineveh is devastated!
^(O)Who will have sympathy for her?’
Where shall I seek comforters for you?”

⁸Are you better than ^[e]^(P)No-amon,
Which was situated by the ^(Q)canals of the Nile,
With water surrounding her,
Whose rampart was ^[f]the sea,
Whose wall consisted of ^[g]the sea?
⁹^(R)Ethiopia was her might,
Egypt too, without limits.
^(S)Put and ^(T)Lubim were among ^[h]her helpers.
¹⁰Yet she ^(U)became an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her ^(V)small children were smashed to pieces
^(W)At the head of every street;
They ^(X)cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with shackles.
¹¹You too will become ^(Y)drunk,
You will be ^(Z)hidden.
You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.
¹²All your fortifications are ^(AA)fig trees with ^[i]^(AB)ripe fruit—
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
¹³Behold, your people are ^(AC)women in your midst!
The gates of your land are ^(AD)opened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes your gate bars.
¹⁴^(AE)Draw for yourself water for a siege!
^(AF)Strengthen your fortifications!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!
¹⁵There ^(AG)fire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will ^(AH)consume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.
¹⁶You have made your ^(AI)traders more numerous than the stars of heaven—
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
¹⁷Your ^(AJ)courtiers are like the migratory locust.
Your ^(AK)officials are like a swarm of locusts
Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
¹⁸Your shepherds are ^(AL)sleeping, O ^(AM)king of Assyria;
Your ^(AN)officers are lying down.
Your people are ^(AO)scattered on the mountains
And there is no one to gather them.
¹⁹There is ^(AP)no relief for your collapse,
Your ^(AQ)wound is incurable.
All who hear ^[j]about you
Will ^(AR)clap their hands over you,
For upon whom has your evil not come continually?

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