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Nahum, Chapter 3

¹ Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs.	1 Eze 24:6 Eze 24:9
² The noise of the whip, The noise of the rattling of the wheel, Galloping horses And^a Lit skippingbounding chariots!	2 Job 39:22-25 Jer 47:3 Nah 2:3 Nah 2:4
³ Horsemen charging, Swords flashing, spears gleaming, Many slain, a mass of corpses, And^b Lit there is no end tocountless dead bodies— They stumble over^c Lit theirthe dead bodies!	3 Hab 3:11 Isa 34:3 Isa 66:16 Isa 37:36 Eze 39:4
⁴ All because of the many harlotries of the harlot, The charming one, the mistress of sorceries, Who sells nations by her harlotries And families by her sorceries.	4 Isa 23:17 Eze 16:25-29 Rev 17:1 Rev 17:2 Isa 47:9 Isa 47:12 Isa 47:13 Rev 18:3
⁵ “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of hosts; “And I will^d Lit uncover yourlift up your skirts over your face, And show to the nations your nakedness And to the kingdoms your disgrace.	5 Jer 50:31 Eze 26:3 Nah 2:13 Isa 47:2 Isa 47:3 Jer 13:26 Eze 16:37
⁶ “I will throw^e Lit detestable thingsfilth on you And make you vile, And set you up as a spectacle.	6 Job 9:31 Job 30:8 Mal 2:9 Isa 14:16 Jer 51:37
⁷ “And it will come about that all who see you Will^f Lit fleeshrink from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated! Who will grieve for her?’ Where will I seek comforters for you?”	7 Isa 51:19 Jer 15:5
⁸ Are you better than^g I.e. the city of Amon: ThebesNo-amon, Which was situated by the waters of the Nile, With water surrounding her, Whose rampart was^h I.e. the Nilethe sea, Whose wall consisted ofⁱ I.e. the Nilethe sea?	8 Jer 46:25 Eze 30:14-16 Isa 19:6-8
⁹ Ethiopia was her might, And Egypt too, without limits. Put and Lubim were among^j Lit yourher helpers.	9 Isa 20:5 Jer 46:9 Eze 27:10 Eze 30:5 Eze 38:5 Ch2 12:3 Ch2 16:8
¹⁰ Yet she became an exile, She went into captivity; Also her small children were dashed to pieces At the head of every street; They cast lots for her honorable men, And all her great men were bound with fetters.	10 Isa 19:4 Isa 20:4 Psa 137:9 Isa 13:16 Hos 13:16 Ljr 2:19 Joe 3:3 (Oba 11)
¹¹ You too will become drunk, You will be hidden. You too will search for a refuge from the enemy.	11 Isa 49:26 Jer 25:27 Nah 1:10 Isa 2:10 Isa 2:19 Hos 10:8
¹² All your fortifications are fig trees with^k Lit first fruitsripe fruit— When shaken, they fall into the eater’s mouth.	12 Rev 6:13 Isa 28:4
¹³ Behold, your people are women in your midst! The gates of your land are opened wide to your enemies; Fire consumes your gate bars.	13 Isa 19:16 Jer 50:37 Jer 51:30 Isa 45:1 Isa 45:2 Nah 2:6
¹⁴ Draw for yourself water for the siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Go into the clay and tread the mortar! Take hold of the brick mold!	14 Ch2 32:3 Ch2 32:4 Nah 2:1
¹⁵ There fire will consume you, The sword will cut you down; It will consume you as the locust does. Multiply yourself like the creeping locust, Multiply yourself like the swarming locust.	15 Isa 66:15 Isa 66:16 Nah 2:13 Nah 3:13 Joe 1:4
¹⁶ You have increased your traders more than the stars of heaven— The creeping locust^l I.e. strips vegetation; or moltsstrips and flies away.	16 Isa 23:8
¹⁷ Your^m Or officialsguardsmen are like the swarming locust. Your marshals are like hordes of grasshoppers Settling in the stone walls on a cold day. The sun rises and they flee, And the place where they are is not known.	17 Rev 9:7 Jer 51:27
¹⁸ Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria; Your nobles are lying down. Your people are scattered on the mountains And there is no one to regather them.	18 Psa 76:5 Psa 76:6 Isa 56:10 Jer 51:57 Jer 50:18 Nah 2:5 Ki1 22:17 Isa 13:14
¹⁹ There is no relief for your breakdown, Your wound is incurable. All who hearⁿ Lit your reportabout you Will clap their hands over you, For on whom has not your evil passed continually?	19 Jer 46:11 Mic 1:9 Jer 30:12 Job 27:23 Ljr 2:15


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