Nahum 3 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

1Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

3the horseman

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Or, charging

mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;—

4because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

5Behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy skirts

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Or, before

upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

6And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing-stock.

7And 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?

8Art thou better than No-amon, that was situate among the

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Or, canals. See Ex. 7:19.

rivers, that had the waters round about her; whose rampart was

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That is, the Nile

the sea, and her wall was of the sea?

9Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.

10Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity; her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

11Thou also shalt be drunken; thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek

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Or, a defence against

a stronghold because of the enemy.

12All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

13Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women; the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire hath devoured thy bars.

14Draw thee water for the siege; strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar;

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Or, lay hold of the brick-mould

make strong the brickkiln.

15There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the canker-worm: make thyself many as the canker-worm; make thyself many as the locust.

16Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the canker-worm

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Or, spreadeth himself

ravageth, and fleeth away.

17Thy princes are as the locusts, and thy

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Or, scribes

marshals as the swarms of grasshoppers, which encamp in the

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Or, walls

hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

18Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles are at rest; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and there is none to gather them.

19There is no assuaging of thy hurt; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the report of thee clap their hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?

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Pink strikethrough: in MACULA Hebrew WLC qere (validated against OSHB), omitted from the ASV-selected Hebrew reading. Green underline: in the ASV-selected reading, absent from MACULA Hebrew WLC qere (validated against OSHB).

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Nahum 3 (ASV Interlinear Bible)

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