Nah 3 | ABEn | STEP | O city of blood, entirely false, [ 2 of iniquity 1 full], [ 2 shall not 3 be handled 1 the game].

‏ Nahum 3

CHAPTER 3 Iniquity of Nineveh

1 O city of blood, entirely false, [²of iniquity ¹full], [²shall not ³be handled ¹the game]. 2 The sound of whips, and the sound of quaking of wheels, and [²horse ¹the pursuing], and the chariot stirring up, 3 horseman ascending, and of the shining broadsword, and flashing shields; and the multitude of slain, and of a heavy downfall; and there was no limit to her nations, and they shall be weak in their bodies from a multitude of harlotry; 4 [²harlot ¹a good], and gratifying, taking the lead in potions; the one selling nations in her harlotry, and tribes with her potions. 5 Behold, I am against you, says the lord almighty. And I will uncover your behind in your presence, and I will show the nations your shame, and to kingdoms your dishonor. 6 And I will cast upon you an abomination according to your uncleannesses, and I will make you for an example. 7 And it will be all the ones seeing you shall go from you, and shall say, Wretched Nineveh, who shall moan her? From what place shall I seek comfort to her? 8 Tune the string of the lyre! Prepare a part for Amon, the one inhabiting in rivers! Water is round about her, whose rule is the sea, and [²water ¹her walls]. 9 Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt. And there stood no limit of your flight into exile. Put and Libya became her helpers. 10 And she into displacement shall go captive; and her infants they shall dash upon corners of all her ways; and over all her honorable things they shall cast lots, and all her great men shall be tied with manacles. 11 And you shall be intoxicated. And you shall be for overlooking, and you shall seek for yourself a position from enemies. 12 All your fortresses are as you, [²fruits ¹having], and if they should be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of ones eating. 13 Behold, your people are as women among you to the ones your enemies. By opening [³shall be open ¹the gates ²of your land]. [²shall devour ¹Fire] the bars of your gates. 14 [²water ⁴for being encompassed about ¹Draw ³to yourself]! Secure your fortresses! Step into the mortar, and trample it together with straw! Secure it more than with a brick! 15 There [²shall devour ³you ¹the fire]; [²shall utterly destroy ³you ¹the broadsword]; it shall devour you as a locust, and you shall be oppressed as a grasshopper. 16 You multiplied your trade above the stars of the heaven. The grasshopper advanced and spread forth. 17 [²leaped out ³as ⁴the small locust ¹Your consolidation], as the locust mounted upon a fence on [²day ¹an icy]; the sun rises, and it hops, and knows not its place -- woe to them. 18 [²slumbered ¹Your shepherds], O king of Assyria, [²rested ¹your mighty ones]. [²departed ¹Your people] unto the mountains, and there was none looking out for them. 19 There is no healing to your destruction; [²is inflamed ¹your wound]. All the ones hearing the message of you clap hands over you. For upon whom [²not ³come upon ¹did your evil] continually?