Nahum 3
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Nahum 3
Ruin Imminent and Inevitable
1 #
Ezek 24.6, 9 Woe, city of bloodshed,
utterly deceitful, full of plunder—
no end to the prey!
2 #
Jer 47.3; Nah 2.3, 4 The crack of whip and rumble of wheel,
galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3 #
2 Kings 19.35; Isa 34.3; Hab 3.11 Horsemen charging,
flashing sword and glittering spear,
piles of dead,
heaps of corpses,
dead bodies without end—
they stumble over the bodies!
4 #
Isa 23.17; 47.9; Rev 17.1, 2; 18.3 Because of the countless debaucheries of the prostitute,
gracefully alluring, mistress of sorcery,
who enslaves#3.4 Heb sells nations through her debaucheries
and peoples through her sorcery,
5 #
Isa 47.2, 3; Jer 13.22; Ezek 16.37; Nah 2.13 I am against you,
says the Lord of hosts,
and will lift up your skirts over your face,
and I will let nations look on your nakedness
and kingdoms on your shame.
6 #
Job 9.31; Isa 14.16; Jer 51.37; Mal 2.9 I will throw filth at you
and treat you with contempt
and make you a spectacle.
7 #
Isa 51.19; Jer 15.5; 51.9; Nah 2.9; Zeph 2.13 Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,
“Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?”
Where shall I seek comforters for you?
8 #
Isa 19.6–8; Jer 46.25; Ezek 30.14–16 Are you better than Thebes#3.8 Or No-amon
that sat by the Nile,
with water around her,
her rampart a sea,
water her wall?
9 #
2 Chr 12.3; Isa 20.5; Ezek 27.10 Cush was her strength,
Egypt, too, and that without limit;
Put and the Libyans were her#3.9 Gk Syr: Heb your helpers.
10 #
Isa 20.4; Lam 2.19; Hos 13.16; Joel 3.3 Yet she became an exile;
she went into captivity;
even her infants were dashed in pieces
at the head of every street;
lots were cast for her nobles;
all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.
11 #
Isa 2.10, 19; Jer 25.27 You also will be drunken;
you will go into hiding;#3.11 Meaning of Heb uncertain
you will seek
a refuge from the enemy.
12 #
Isa 28.4; Rev 6.13 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with first-ripe figs—
if shaken they fall
into the mouth of the eater.
13 #
Ps 147.13; Jer 50.37; 51.30 Look at your troops:
they are women in your midst.
The gates of your land
are wide open to your foes;
fire has devoured the bars of your gates.
14Draw water for the siege;
strengthen your forts;
trample the clay;
tread the mortar;
take hold of the brick mold!
15 #
v 13
; Joel 1.4There the fire will devour you;
the sword will cut you off.
It will devour you like the locust.
Multiply yourselves like the locust;
multiply like the grasshopper!
16You increased your merchants
more than the stars of the heavens.
The locust sheds its skin and flies away.
17Your guards are like grasshoppers,
your scribes like swarms#3.17 Meaning of Heb uncertain of locusts
settling on the fences
on a cold day—
when the sun rises, they fly away;
no one knows where they have gone.
18 #
1 Kings 22.17; Ps 76.5, 6; Isa 56.10; Jer 51.57; Nah 2.5 Your shepherds are asleep,
O king of Assyria;
your nobles slumber.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.
19 #
Lam 2.15; Mic 1.9; Zeph 2.15 There is no assuaging your hurt;
your wound is mortal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands over you.
For who has ever escaped
your endless cruelty?
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