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Nahum 3
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Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey
departeth not; |
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| 3:2
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of
the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots. |
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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: |
"There is a multitude of slain, and a great number of
carcasses; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses."
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| 3:4
Because of the multitude
of the whoredoms of the well favoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts,
that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her
witchcrafts. |
(3:4-6)
God will "discover thy skirts upon thy
face, ... show the nations thy nakedness, ... and cast abominable
filth upon thee."
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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. |
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And I will cast
abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a
gazingstock. |
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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? |
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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? |
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Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim
were thy helpers. |
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| 3:10 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. |
God punished Nineveh by enslaving the people and smashing the little children in the
streets.
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| 3:11
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek
strength because of the enemy. |
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| 3:12
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. |
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| 3:13
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. |
"Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women."
"You're all a bunch of women" was the biggest insult God could think of at the moment.
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| 3:14
Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay,
and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
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| 3:15
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. |
God says that "the fire shall devour
thee, the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the
cankerworm."
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| 3:16
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the
cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away. |
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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. |
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| 3:18
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. |
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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?
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