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World English Bible

Nahum 3 (WEBP)

[1] Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.
[2] The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
[3] the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies
[4] because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
[5] “Behold, I am against you,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
[6] I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.
[7] It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, ‘Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”
[8] Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
[9] Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
[10] Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
[11] You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
[12] All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs. If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
[13] Behold, your troops among you are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
[14] Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
[15] There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
[16] You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips and flees away.
[17] Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
[18] Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
[19] There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

Nahum 3:8a or, Thebes
Nahum 3:8b or, Nile

Scripture quotations are taken from The World English Bible™ of eBible.org, 2020 stable text edition. It is in the public domain.

King James w/Strong’s #s

Nahum 3 (KJVS)

[1] Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
[2] the noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
[3] The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
[4] because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
[5] Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
[6] And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
[7] And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
[8] Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
[9] Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
[10] Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
[11] Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
[12] All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
[13] Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
[14] Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
[15] There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
[16] Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
[17] Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
[18] Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
[19] There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

Nahum 3:1 Heb. city of bloods
Nahum 3:8 Or, nourishing. Heb. No Amon
Nahum 3:9 Heb. in thy help
Nahum 3:16 Or, spreadeth himself
Nahum 3:18 Or, valiant ones
Nahum 3:19 Heb. wrinkling

Scripture quotations from The Authorized King James Version of the Holy Bible, using the standardized text of 1769. It is in the public domain.

Greek Bible (LXX/BYZ)

Nahum 3 (BYZ)

[1] Ὦ () πόλις () αἱμάτων () ὅλη () ψευδὴς () ἀδικίας () πλήρης, () οὐ () ψηλαφηθήσεται () θήρα. ()
[2] Φωνὴ () μαστίγων () καὶ () φωνὴ () σεισμοῦ () τροχῶν () καὶ () ἵππου () διώκοντος () καὶ () ἅρματος () ἀναβράσσοντος
[3] καὶ () ἱππέως () ἀναβαίνοντος () καὶ () στιλβούσης () ῥομφαίας () καὶ () ἐξαστραπτόντων () ὅπλων () καὶ () πλήθους () τραυματιῶν καὶ () βαρείας () πτώσεως· () καὶ () οὐκ () ἦν () πέρας () τοῖς () ἔθνεσιν () αὐτῆς, () καὶ () ἀσθενήσουσιν () ἐν () τοῖς () σώμασιν () αὐτῶν ()
[4] ἀπὸ () πλήθους () πορνείας. () Πόρνη () καλὴ καὶ () ἐπιχαρὴς ἡγουμένη () φαρμάκων ἡ () πωλοῦσα () ἔθνη () ἐν () τῇ () πορνείᾳ () αὐτῆς () καὶ () φυλὰς () ἐν () τοῖς () φαρμάκοις αὐτῆς, ()
[5] ἰδοῦ () ἐγὼ () ἐπὶ () σέ, () λέγει () κύριος () ὁ () θεὸς () ὁ () παντοκράτωρ, () καὶ () ἀποκαλύψω () τὰ () ὀπίσω () σου () ἐπὶ () τὸ () πρόσωπόν () σου () καὶ () δείξω () ἔθνεσιν () τὴν () αἰσχύνην () σου () καὶ () βασιλείαις () τὴν () ἀτιμίαν () σου ()
[6] καὶ () ἐπιρρίψω () ἐπὶ () σὲ () βδελυγμὸν κατὰ () τὰς () ἀκαθαρσίας () σου () καὶ () θήσομαί () σε () εἰς () παράδειγμα,
[7] καὶ () ἔσται () πᾶς () ὁ () ὁρῶν () σε () ἀποπηδήσεται ἀπὸ () σοῦ () καὶ () ἐρεῖ () Δειλαία Νινευη· () τίς () στενάξει () αὐτήν; () Πόθεν () ζητήσω () παράκλησιν () αὐτῇ; ()
[8] Ἑτοίμασαι () μερίδα, () ἅρμοσαι () χορδήν, ἑτοίμασαι () μερίδα, () Αμων () ἡ () κατοικοῦσα () ἐν () ποταμοῖς, () ὕδωρ () κύκλῳ () αὐτῆς, () ἧς () ἡ () ἀρχὴ () θάλασσα () καὶ () ὕδωρ () τὰ () τείχη () αὐτῆς, ()
[9] καὶ () Αἰθιοπία ἡ () ἰσχὺς () αὐτῆς () καὶ () Αἴγυπτος, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἔστιν () πέρας () τῆς () φυγῆς, () καὶ () Λίβυες ἐγένοντο () βοηθοὶ () αὐτῆς. ()
[10] Καὶ () αὐτὴ () εἰς () μετοικεσίαν () πορεύσεται () αἰχμάλωτος, () καὶ () τὰ () νήπια () αὐτῆς () ἐδαφιοῦσιν () ἐπ’ () ἀρχὰς () πασῶν () τῶν () ὁδῶν () αὐτῆς, () καὶ () ἐπὶ () πάντα () τὰ () ἔνδοξα () αὐτῆς () βαλοῦσιν () κλήρους, () καὶ () πάντες () οἱ () μεγιστᾶνες () αὐτῆς () δεθήσονται () χειροπέδαις.
[11] Καὶ () σὺ () μεθυσθήσῃ () καὶ () ἔσῃ () ὑπερεωραμένη, () καὶ () σὺ () ζητήσεις () σεαυτῇ () στάσιν () ἐξ () ἐχθρῶν. ()
[12] Πάντα () τὰ () ὀχυρώματά () σου () συκαῖ () σκοποὺς () ἔχουσαι· () ἐὰν () σαλευθῶσιν, () καὶ () πεσοῦνται () εἰς () στόμα () ἔσθοντος.
[13] Ἰδοὺ () ὁ () λαός () σου () ὡς () γυναῖκες () ἐν () σοί· () τοῖς () ἐχθροῖς () σου () ἀνοιγόμεναι () ἀνοιχθήσονται () πύλαι () τῆς () γῆς () σου, () καὶ () καταφάγεται () πῦρ () τοὺς () μοχλούς σου. ()
[14] Ὕδωρ () περιοχῆς () ἐπίσπασαι () σεαυτῇ () καὶ () κατακράτησον τῶν () ὀχυρωμάτων () σου, () ἔμβηθι () εἰς () πηλὸν () καὶ () συμπατήθητι ἐν () ἀχύροις, () κατακράτησον ὑπὲρ () πλίνθον·
[15] ἐκεῖ () καταφάγεταί () σε () πῦρ, () ἐξολεθρεύσει () σε () ῥομφαία, () καταφάγεταί () σε () ὡς () ἀκρίς, () καὶ () βαρυνθήσῃ () ὡς () βροῦχος.
[16] Ἐπλήθυνας () τὰς () ἐμπορίας () σου () ὑπὲρ () τὰ () ἄστρα () τοῦ () οὐρανοῦ· () βροῦχος ὥρμησεν () καὶ () ἐξεπετάσθη.
[17] Ἐξήλατο ὡς () ἀττέλεβος ὁ () σύμμικτός σου, () ὡς () ἀκρὶς () ἐπιβεβηκυῖα () ἐπὶ () φραγμὸν () ἐν () ἡμέραις () πάγους· ὁ () ἥλιος () ἀνέτειλεν, () καὶ () ἀφήλατο, καὶ () οὐκ () ἔγνω () τὸν () τόπον () αὐτῆς· () οὐαὶ () αὐτοῖς. ()
[18] Ἐνύσταξαν () οἱ () ποιμένες () σου, () βασιλεὺς () Ἀσσύριος ἐκοίμισεν τοὺς () δυνάστας () σου· () ἀπῆρεν () ὁ () λαός () σου () ἐπὶ () τὰ () ὄρη, () καὶ () οὐκ () ἦν () ὁ () ἐκδεχόμενος. ()
[19] Οὐκ () ἔστιν () ἴασις () τῇ () συντριβῇ σου, () ἐφλέγμανεν ἡ () πληγή () σου· () πάντες () οἱ () ἀκούοντες () τὴν () ἀγγελίαν () σου () κροτήσουσιν χεῖρας () ἐπὶ () σέ· () διότι () ἐπὶ () τίνα () οὐκ () ἐπῆλθεν () ἡ () κακία () σου () διὰ () παντός; ()

Old Testament scripture quotations and versification from Septuaginta, edited by Alfred Rahlfs (Stuttgart: Württembergische Bibelanstalt, 1935). New Testament quotations are from the Byzantine Text (Guardian Press, LLC, Robinson-Pierpont Byzantine Textform, 2026). Both are in the public domain.