Nah 3 | NASB2020 | STEP | Woe to the bloody city , completely full of lies and pillage ; Her prey does not leave .

Nahum 3

Nineveh’s Complete Ruin

1 ^aWoe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage;
Her prey does not leave.
2 The ^bsound of the whip,
The sound of the roar of the wheel,
Galloping horses
And ^{▼▼Lit leaping}bounding chariots!
3 Horsemen charging,
Swords flashing, ^dspears gleaming,
^eMany killed, a mass of corpses,
And there is ^fno end to the dead bodies--
They stumble over ^{▼▼Lit their}the dead bodies!
4 All because of the ^hmany sexual acts of the prostitute,
The charming one, the ⁱmistress of sorceries,
Who ^jsells nations by her sexual acts,
And families by her sorceries.
5 “Behold, ^kI am against you,” declares the Lord of armies;
“And I will ^{▼▼Lit uncover your private parts
,} ^mlift up your skirts over your face,
And ⁿshow the nations your nakedness,
And the kingdoms your shame.
6 “I will ^othrow filth on you
And ^pdeclare you worthless,
And set you up as a ^qspectacle.
7 “And it will come about that all who see you
Will ^{▼▼Lit flee}shrink from you and say,
‘Nineveh is devastated!
^sWho will have sympathy for her?’
Where shall I seek comforters for you?”

8 Are you better than ^{▼▼I.e., the city of Amon: Thebes
,} ^uNo-amon,
Which was situated by the ^vcanals of the Nile,
With water surrounding her,
Whose rampart was ^{▼▼I.e., the Nile}the sea,
Whose wall consisted of ^{▼▼I.e., the Nile}the sea?
9 ^yEthiopia was her might,
Egypt too, without limits.
^zPut and ^aaLubim were among ^{▼▼Lit your}her helpers.
10 Yet she ^acbecame an exile,
She went into captivity;
Also her ^adsmall children were smashed to pieces
^aeAt the head of every street;
They ^afcast lots for her honorable men,
And all her great men were bound with shackles.
11 You too will become ^agdrunk,
You will be ^ahhidden.
You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortifications are ^aifig trees with ^{▼▼Lit first fruits
,} ^akripe fruit--
When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.
13 Behold, your people are ^alwomen in your midst!
The gates of your land are ^amopened wide to your enemies;
Fire consumes your gate bars.
14 ^anDraw for yourself water for a siege!
^aoStrengthen your fortifications!
Go into the clay and tread the mortar!
Take hold of the brick mold!
15 There ^apfire will consume you,
The sword will cut you down;
It will ^aqconsume you as the creeping locust consumes a crop.
Multiply yourself like the creeping locust,
Multiply yourself like the migratory locust.
16 You have made your ^artraders more numerous than the stars of heaven--
The creeping locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17 Your ^ascourtiers are like the migratory locust.
Your ^atofficials are like a swarm of locusts
Settling in the stone shelters on a cold day.
The sun rises and they flee,
And the place where they are is not known.
18 Your shepherds are ^ausleeping, O ^avking of Assyria;
Your ^awofficers are lying down.
Your people are ^axscattered on the mountains
And there is no one to gather them.
19 There is ^ayno relief for your collapse,
Your ^azwound is incurable.
All who hear ^{▼▼Lit your report}about you
Will ^bbclap their hands over you,
For upon whom has your evil not come continually?