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Nahum
Chapter 03
1 Woe to the bloody city {Nineveh}!
It is all full of lies and robbery.
The prey departs not.
2
The noise of a whip,
and
the noise of the rattling of the wheels,
and
of the prancing horses,
and
of the jumping chariots.
3
The horseman lifts up both the bright sword
and
the glittering spear.
And
there is a multitude of slain,
and
a great number of carcasses.
And there is no end of their corpses.
They stumble upon their corpses.
4
Because of the multitude of the whoredoms
of
the well favored harlot,
the
mistress of witchcrafts,
who
sell nations through her whoredoms,
and
families through her witchcrafts.
5
"Behold, I am against you," said Jehovah/God of the armies/hosts,
"and
I will discover your skirts upon your face,
and
I will show the nations your nakedness,
and
the kingdoms your shame. 6
And
I will cast abominable filth upon you,
and
make you vile,
and
will set you as a spectacle/gazing-stock. 7
And
it shall come to pass,
that
all those who look upon you shall flee from you,
and
say, 'Nineveh is laid waste.'
Who will bemoan her?
Where shall I seek comforters for you? 8
Are you better than populous?
No
. . . that which 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 your 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 honorable men,
and
all her great men were bound in chains. 11
You also shall be drunken.
You shall be hid.
You also shall seek strength because of the enemy. 12
All your strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs.
If
they are shaken,
they
shall even fall into the mouth of the eater. 13
Behold, your people in the middle of you are women.
The gates of your land shall be set wide open unto your enemies.
The fire shall devour your bars. 14
Draw you waters for the siege.
Fortify your strong holds.
Go into clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick kiln."
{Verses
15-16. Nineveh will be destroyed by an Invading Army}
{See
also locusts mentioned in Revelation 9.3 as an invading army}
15~~"There
{in Nineveh}
fire
will consume you,
the
sword will cut you down {invading army}
it
will consume you like the locust does. 16~~
You
have increased your trade
more
than the stars in the heaven.
And
the creeping locusts strip you
and
flies away. 17
Your
crowned are as the locusts,
and
your captains as the great grasshoppers
which
camp in the hedges in the cold day,
but
when the sun arises they flee away,
and
their place is not known where they are. 18
Your shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria.
Your nobles shall dwell in the dust.
Your people is scattered upon the mountains.
And no man gathers them. 19
There is no healing of your bruise.
Your wound is grievous.
All
who hear the bruit of you
shall
clap the hands over you.
For upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
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