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Nahum

ESV

Chapter 3

¹Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder—no end to the prey! ²The crack of the whip, and the rumble of the wheel, galloping horses and bounding chariots! ³Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear! Heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over the bodies! ⁴Because of the multitude of the whoring of the prostitute, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her whoring, and peoples with her charms. ⁵“Behold, I am against you, declares the LORD of hosts, and I will lift your skirts over your face; and I will make nations look at your nakedness and kingdoms at your shame. ⁶I will throw abominable filth upon you and make you loathsome; and I will make you a spectacle. ⁷And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, ‘Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?’ Where shall I seek comforters for you?” ⁸Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall? ⁹Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers. ¹⁰Yet she was carried away; she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains. ¹¹You also will be drunken; you will be overwhelmed; you also will seek refuge from the enemy. ¹²All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs; if shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater. ¹³Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars. ¹⁴Draw water for the siege; strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold! ¹⁵There will the fire devour you; the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper! ¹⁶You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of heaven. The locust spreads its wings and flies away. ¹⁷Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like swarms of locusts, settled on the fences in a cold day—when the sun rises, they flee away; no one knows where they are. ¹⁸Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them. ¹⁹There is no assuaging your hurt; your wound is grievous. All who hear the news about you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not your evil passed continually?