Nahum 3 (NET)

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Nahum 3:1¹Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Hab 2:12 Zeph 3:1-3 Ezek 22:2-3 Ezek 24:6-9 Hos 4:2 Nah 2:12 Isa 17:14 Isa 42:24 Isa 24:9

Nahum 3:2²The chariot drivers will crack their whips; the chariot wheels will shake the ground. The chariot horses will gallop; the war chariots will bolt forward!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 47:3 Nah 2:3-4 Job 39:22-25 Judg 5:22 Isa 9:5

Nahum 3:3³The 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 casualties — so many that people will stumble over the corpses.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 39:4 Hab 3:11 Isa 34:3 Isa 37:36 Gen 3:24 2 Kgs 19:35 Ezek 31:3-13 Nah 2:4

Nahum 3:4⁴Because you have acted like a wanton prostitute — a seductive mistress who practices sorcery, who enslaves nations by her harlotry, and entices peoples by her sorcery —Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 47:9 Isa 47:12-13 Ezek 16:25-29 Rev 17:1-5 Rev 18:2-3 Rev 18:23 Rev 18:9 Isa 23:15-17

Nahum 3:5⁵“I am against you,” declares the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. “I will strip off your clothes! I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 13:26 Ezek 23:29 Jer 13:22 Ezek 16:37 Isa 47:2-3 Nah 2:13 Hab 2:16 Ezek 23:25 Mic 1:11

Nahum 3:6⁶I will pelt you with filth; I will treat you with contempt; I will make you a public spectacle.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mal 2:9 Jer 51:37 Job 9:31 Ps 38:5-7 1 Cor 4:9 Heb 10:33 Job 30:8 Nah 1:14 1 Cor 4:13 1 Kgs 9:7-8

Nahum 3:7⁷Everyone who sees you will turn away from you in disgust; they will say, ‘Nineveh has been devastated! Who will lament for her?’ There will be no one to comfort you!”Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 51:19 Jer 15:5 Rev 18:10 Jer 51:9 Lam 2:13 Num 16:34 Nah 1:1 Nah 2:9-10 Jer 51:41-43 Rev 18:16-19

Nahum 3:8⁸You are no more secure than Thebes — she was located on the banks of the Nile; the waters surrounded her— her rampart was the sea, the water was her wall.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Amos 6:2 Ezek 30:14-16 Ezek 31:2-3 Isa 19:5-10 Jer 46:25-26

Nahum 3:9⁹Cush and Egypt had limitless strength; Put and the Libyans were among her allies.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Ezek 27:10 Ezek 30:5 2 Chr 12:3 Ezek 38:5 Gen 10:6 Isa 20:5 Jer 46:9 1 Chr 1:8

Nahum 3:10¹⁰Yet 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 20:4 Hos 13:16 Joel 3:3 Obad 1:11 Isa 13:16 Lam 2:19 2 Kgs 8:12 Amos 1:13 Isa 13:6 Lam 4:1

Nahum 3:11¹¹You too will act like drunkards; you will go into hiding; you too will seek refuge from the enemy.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Isa 2:10 Isa 49:26 Luke 23:30 Hos 10:8 Isa 2:19 Jer 4:5 Nah 1:10 Ps 75:8 Rev 6:15-17 1 Sam 13:6

Nahum 3:12¹²All 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Rev 6:13 Hab 1:10 Isa 28:4

Nahum 3:13¹³Your 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:30 Isa 19:16 Jer 50:37 Nah 2:6 Isa 45:1-2 Ps 107:16 Ps 147:13

Nahum 3:14¹⁴Draw yourselves water for a siege! Strengthen your fortifications! Trample the mud and tread the clay! Make mud bricks to strengthen your walls!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:2 Chr 32:3-4 Nah 2:1 Jer 46:3-4 2 Chr 32:11 Isa 22:9-11 Isa 37:25 Isa 8:9 Jer 46:9 Joel 3:9-11

Nahum 3:15¹⁵There the fire will consume you; the sword will cut you down; it will devour you like the young locust would. Multiply yourself like the young locust; multiply yourself like the flying locust!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Joel 1:4 Nah 2:13 Nah 3:13 Exod 10:13-15 Joel 2:25 Zeph 2:13

Nahum 3:16¹⁶Increase your merchants more than the stars of heaven! They are like the young locust that sheds its skin and flies away.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Gen 15:5 Gen 22:17 Jer 33:22 Neh 9:23

Nahum 3:17¹⁷Your 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Jer 51:27 Rev 9:7

Nahum 3:18¹⁸Your 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.Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:1 Kgs 22:17 Ps 76:5-6 Isa 13:14 Jer 50:18 Jer 51:57 Exod 15:16 Ezek 31:3-18 Ezek 32:22-23 Isa 47:1 Isa 56:9-10

Nahum 3:19¹⁹Your 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!Copy Link KJV+Strong’s Many Bible Versions Ask AICross Refs:Mic 1:9 Lam 2:15 Isa 37:18 Job 27:23 Jer 46:11 Ezek 25:6 Ezek 30:21-22 Isa 10:6-14 Isa 14:8-21 Jer 10:22