1 Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and booty -- no end to the plunder!
2 The crack of whip, and rumble of wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
3 Horsemen charging, flashing sword and glittering spear, hosts of slain, heaps of corpses, dead bodies without end -- they stumble over the bodies!
4 And all for the countless harlotries of the harlot, graceful and of deadly charms, who betrays nations with her harlotries, and peoples with her charms.
5 Behold, 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 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt, and make you a gazingstock.
7 And all who look on you will shrink from you and say, Wasted is Nin'eveh; who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for her?
8 Are you better than Thebes that sat by the Nile, with water around her, her rampart a sea, and water her wall?
9 Ethiopia was her strength, Egypt too, and that without limit; Put and the Libyans were her helpers.
10 Yet she was carried away, she went into captivity; her little ones were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; for her honored men lots were cast, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 You also will be drunken, you will be dazed; you will seek a refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees with first-ripe figs -- if shaken they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your foes; fire has devoured your bars.
14 Draw water for the siege, strengthen your forts; go into the clay, tread the mortar, take hold of the brick mold!
15 There will the fire devour you, the sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the locust. Multiply yourselves like the locust, multiply like the grasshopper!
16 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
17 Your princes are like grasshoppers, your scribes like clouds of locusts settling on the fences in a day of cold -- when the sun rises, they fly away; no one knows where they are.
18 Your shepherds are asleep, O king of Assyria; your nobles slumber. Your people are scattered on the mountains with none to gather them.
19 There is no assuaging your hurt, your wound is grievous. All who hear the news of you clap their hands over you. For upon whom has not come your unceasing evil?
Versículos relacionados com Nahum, 3:
Naum 3 describes the destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, for its corruption, violence and idolatry. The chapter announces the fall of the city and the defeat of its inhabitants, and describes the horror and chaos that follow its fall. The verses selected below are related to the themes of judgment, destruction and sin.
Isaiah 13:9: "Behold, the day of the Lord comes, horrendous, with fury and ardent wrath, to make the earth in the bleach, and to destroy sinners." This verse describes the day of God's judgment when he will come to punish sinners and bring destruction.
SHAPONIAS 1:15: "That day is a day of indignation, day of anguish and tightening, day of excitement and blow, day of darkness and darkness, day of clouds and dense darkness." This verse describes the terrible nature of God's judgment, which will bring destruction and suffering to sinners.
Jeremiah 50:31-32: "Behold, I am against you, O superb, says the Lord God of hosts, for your day came, the time when I will visit you. And the superb will stumble, and fall, and not There will be those who get up; and I will set fire to their cities, and consume all their surroundings. " This verse speaks of the fall of a superb city and the following destruction.
Jeremiah 51:37: "And Babylon will become in Montões, dwelling of Chacals, astonishment and whistle, without inhabitant." This verse describes the destruction of a city and its transformation into ruins.
Isaiah 47:11: "From what shall come upon you evil that you will not know how to conjure, and such destruction shall fall upon you that you may in no way be guessed; and you will suddenly come to the one not suspected." This verse speaks of the destruction that will come upon the wicked suddenly and unexpectedly, as a divine judgment on sin.
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