Nahum 3:1–9
1Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.↗
2The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,↗
3the 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↗
4because 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 the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.↗
6I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle.↗
7It 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?”↗
8Are 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?↗
9Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.↗
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