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Nahúm 3,1-19
Chapter III.
The miserable ruine of Nineueh.
1 Woe to the [ Hebrew: Citie of bloods.] [ Eze_24:9; Hab_2:10.] bloody City, it is all full of lyes and robberie, the pray departeth not.
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheeles, and of the praunsing horses, and of the iumping charets.
3 The horseman lifteth vp both the [ Hebrew: the flame of the sword and the lightning of the speare.] bright sword, & the glittering speare, and there is a multitude of slaine, and a great number of carkeises: and there is none ende of their corpses: they stumble vpon their corpses,
4 Because of the multitude of the
[The destruction of Nineueh.]
whoredomes of the wel-fauoured harlot, the mistresse of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredomes, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, [ Isa_47:3 ; Eze_16:37 .] I am against thee, saith the Lord of hostes, and I will discouer thy skirtes vpon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakednesse, and the kingdomes thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth vpon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stocke.
7 And it shall come to passe, that all they that looke vpon thee, shall flee from thee, and say; Nineueh is layde waste, who will bemoane her? whence shall I seeke comforters for thee?
8 Art thou better then [ Or, nourishing. Hebrew: No Amon.] populous No, that was scituate among the riuers that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinit, Put and Lubim were [ Hebrew: in thy helpe.] thy helpers.
10 Yet was she caried away, she went into captiuitie: her yong children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streetes: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chaines.
11 Thou also shalt be [ Jer_25:17 .] drunken: thou shalt bee hid, thou also shalt seeke strength because of the enemie.
12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the first ripe figs: if they bee shaken, they shall euen fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Beholde, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open vnto thine enemies, the fire shall deuoure thy barres.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege: fortifie thy strong holdes, goe into clay, and tread the morter: make strong the bricke-kill.
15 There shall the fire deuoure thee: the sword shall cut thee off: it shall eate thee vp like the cankerworme: make thy selfe many as the cankerworme, make thy selfe many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants aboue the starres of heauen; the cankerworme [ Or, spreadeth himselfe.] spoileth & flieth away.
17 The crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grashoppers which campe in the hedges in the
[The iniquitie of the land.]
cold day: but when the Sunne ariseth, they flee away, and their place is not knowen where they are.
18 Thy shepheards slumber, O king of Assyria: thy [ Or, valiant ones.] nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered vpon the
[The iniquitie of the land.]
mountaines, & no man gathereth them.
19 There is no [ Hebrew: wrinkling.] healing of thy bruise: thy wound is grieuous: all that heare the bruit of thee, shall clap the hands ouer thee; for vpon whom hath not thy wickednesse passed continually?