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Nahum 3 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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The Woe of Nineveh

Judgment for Nineveh’s Sins

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Nah 3:1 - Woe to the bloody city!

It is all full of lies and robbery.
Its victim never departs.

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Nah 3:2 - The noise of a whip
And the noise of rattling wheels,
Of galloping horses,
Of clattering chariots!

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Nah 3:3 - Horsemen charge with bright sword and glittering spear.
There is a multitude of slain,
A great number of bodies,
Countless corpses—
They stumble over the corpses—

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Nah 3:4 - Because of the multitude of harlotries of the seductive harlot,
The mistress of sorceries,
Who sells nations through her harlotries,
And families through her sorceries.

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Nah 3:5 - “Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts;
“I will lift your skirts over your face,
I will show the nations your nakedness,
And the kingdoms your shame.

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Nah 3:6 - I will cast abominable filth upon you,
Make you vile,
And make you a spectacle.

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Nah 3:7 - It shall come to pass that all who look upon you
Will flee from you, and say,
‘Nineveh is laid waste!
Who will bemoan her?’
Where shall I seek comforters for you?”

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Nah 3:8 - Are you better than No Amon[fn]
That was situated by the River,[fn]
That had the waters around her,
Whose rampart was the sea,
Whose wall was the sea?

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Nah 3:9 - Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
And it was boundless;
Put and Lubim were your[fn] helpers.

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Nah 3:10 - Yet she was carried away,
She went into captivity;
Her young children also were dashed to pieces
At the head of every street;
They cast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound in chains.

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Nah 3:11 - You also will be drunk;
You will be hidden;
You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

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Nah 3:12 - All your strongholds are fig trees with ripened figs:
If they are shaken,
They fall into the mouth of the eater.

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Nah 3:13 - Surely, your people in your midst are women!
The gates of your land are wide open for your enemies;
Fire shall devour the bars of your gates.

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Nah 3:14 - Draw your water for the siege!
Fortify your strongholds!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Make strong the brick kiln!

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Nah 3:15 - There the fire will devour you,
The sword will cut you off;
It will eat you up like a locust.

Make yourself many—like the locust!
Make yourself many— like the swarming locusts!

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Nah 3:16 - You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven.
The locust plunders and flies away.

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Nah 3:17 - Your commanders are like swarming locusts,
And your generals like great grasshoppers,
Which camp in the hedges on a cold day;
When the sun rises they flee away,
And the place where they are is not known.

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Nah 3:18 - Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria;
Your nobles rest in the dust.
Your people are scattered on the mountains,
And no one gathers them.

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Nah 3:19 - Your injury has no healing,
Your wound is severe.
All who hear news of you
Will clap their hands over you,
For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?

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NKJV Footnotes

(3:8)

That is, ancient Thebes; Targum and Vulgate read populous Alexandria.

(3:8)

Literally rivers, that is, the Nile and the surrounding canals

(3:9)

Septuagint reads her.

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