Nah 3
1
O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be Or, felt after; See Ac 17:27 handled.
2
The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse,
and of the bounding chariot,
3
and of the Or, rider on horseback mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude
of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall
be weak in their bodies
4
because of the abundance of fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favoured,
skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her
sorceries.
5
Behold, I am against you, says the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover your skirts
in your presence, and I will shew the nations your shame, and the kingdoms your disgrace.
6
And I will cast abominable filth upon you according to your unclean ways, and will
make you a public example.
7
And it shall be that every one that sees you shall go down from you, and shall say,
Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?
8
Prepare you a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells
among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls
are water.
9
And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her
enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers.
10
Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against
the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious
possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.
11
And you shall be drunken, and shall be Or, despised overlooked; and you shall seek for yourself q. d. establishment strength
because of your enemies.
12
All your strong-holds are as fig-trees rwkb probably read as rqb having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into
the mouth of the eater.
13
Behold, your people within you are as women: the gates of your land shall surely be
opened to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.
14
Draw you water Gr. of for a siege, and well secure your strong-holds: enter into the clay, and Alex. tread you be you trodden
in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick.
15
There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall utterly destroy you, it shall devour
you as the locust, and you shall be pressed down as a palmerworm.
16
You have multiplied your merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has
attacked it, and has flown away.
17
Your mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched
on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place:
woe to them!
18
Your shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low your mighty men: your
people departed to the mountains, and there was none to Or, wait for receive them.
19
There is no healing for your bruise; your wound has rankled: all that hear the report
of you shall clap their hands against you; for upon whom has not your wickedness passed
continually?