# Nahum 03 đ
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## đ Scripture Text (NET)
(The NET Bible: New English Translation. Biblical Studies Press, 2005)
### Reason for Judgment: Sins of Nineveh
[[#Verse 01.]]Â Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed!
She is full of lies;
she is filled with plunder;
she has hoarded her spoil!
### Portrayal of the Destruction of Nineveh
[[#Verse 02.]]Â The chariot drivers will crack their whips;
the chariot wheels will shake the ground.
The chariot horses will gallop;
the war chariots will bolt forward!
[[#Verse 03.]] The charioteers will charge ahead;
their swords will flash
and their spears will glimmer!
There will be many people slain;
there will be piles of the dead
and countless casualtiesâ
so many that people will stumble over the corpses.
### Taunt against the Harlot City
[[#Verse 04.]] Because you have acted like a wanton prostituteâ
a seductive mistress who practices sorcery,
who enslaves nations by her harlotry,
and entices peoples by her sorceryâ
[[#Verse 05.]] âI am against you,â declares the Lord of Heavenâs Armies.
âI will strip off your clothes!
I will show your nakedness to the nations
and your shame to the kingdoms.
[[#Verse 06.]]Â I will pelt you with filth;
I will treat you with contempt;
I will make you a public spectacle.
[[#Verse 07.]]Â Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust;
they will say, âNineveh has been devastated!
Who will lament for her?â
There will be no one to comfort you!â
### Nineveh Will Suffer the Same Fate as Thebes
[[#Verse 08.]] You are no more secure than Thebesâ
she was located on the banks of the Nile;
the waters surrounded herâ
her rampart was the sea,
the water was her wall.
[[#Verse 09.]] Cush and Egypt had limitless strength;
Put and the Libyans were among her allies.
[[#Verse 10.]]Â Yet she went into captivity as an exile;
even her infants were smashed to pieces at the head of every street.
They cast lots for her nobility;
all her dignitaries were bound with chains.
[[#Verse 11.]]Â You too will act like drunkards;
you will go into hiding;
you too will seek refuge from the enemy.
### The Assyrian Defenses Will Fail
[[#Verse 12.]] All your fortifications will be like fig trees with first-ripe fruit:
If they are shaken, their figs will fall into the mouth of the eater.
[[#Verse 13.]]Â Your warriors will be like women in your midst;
the gates of your land will be wide open to your enemies;
fire will consume the bars of your gates.
[[#Verse 14.]]Â Draw yourselves water for a siege!
Strengthen your fortifications!
Trample the mud and tread the clay!
Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!
[[#Verse 15.]] There the fire will consume you;
the sword will cut you down;
it will devour you like the young locust would.
### The Assyrian Defenders Will Flee
Multiply yourself like the young locust;
multiply yourself like the flying locust!
[[#Verse 16.]] Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven!
They are like the young locust that sheds its skin and flies away.
[[#Verse 17.]] Your courtiers are like locusts,
your officials are like a swarm of locusts!
They encamp in the walls on a cold day,
yet when the sun rises, they fly away,
and no one knows where they are.
### Concluding Dirge
[[#Verse 18.]] Your shepherds are sleeping, O king of Assyria.
Your officers are slumbering!
Your people are scattered like sheep on the mountains,
and there is no one to regather them.
[[#Verse 19.]]Â Your destruction is like an incurable wound;
your demise is like a fatal injury.
All who hear what has happened to you will clap their hands for joy,
for no one ever escaped your endless cruelty!
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