Nahum 3

3Woe to the ^†abloody city!

It is all full of lies and robbery;

^bThe prey departeth not;

²The noise of a whip, and ^cthe noise of the rattling of the wheels,

And of the ^dpransing horses, and of the ^ejumping chariots.

³The horseman lifteth up both ^†the bright sword and ^fthe glittering spear:

And ^gthere is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases;

And there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:

⁴Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured ^hharlot,

ⁱThe ^kmistress of ^lwitchcrafts,

That selleth nations through ^hher whoredoms,

And families through her ^lwitchcrafts.

^5mBehold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts;

And ⁿI will discover thy skirts upon thy face,

And ^noI will shew the nations thy nakedness,

And the kingdoms ^opthy shame.

⁶And ^ppI will cast abominable filth upon thee, and ^qmake thee vile,

And will set thee as ^ra gazingstock.

⁷And it shall come to pass, that all they that ^rlook upon thee ^sshall flee from thee, and say,

^tNineveh is laid waste: ^uwho will bemoan her?

^vWhence shall I seek comforters for thee?

^8wArt thou better than ^||†populous ^xNo,

That was situate among ^ythe rivers, that had the waters round about it,

Whose ^zrampart was ^athe sea, and her wall was from ^athe sea?

^9bcEthiopia and ^bEgypt were her strength, and ^dit was infinite;

^ePut and ^bfLubim were ^†thy helpers.

^10gYet was she carried away, she went into captivity:

^hHer young children also were dashed in pieces ⁱat the top of all the streets:

And ^kthey cast lots for ^lher honourable men,

And all her great men were bound ^lin chains.

^11mThou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid,

Thou also shalt seek ⁿstrength because of the enemy.

¹²All thy strong holds shall be ^olike ^pfig trees with the firstripe figs:

If they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.

¹³Behold, thy people in the midst of thee ^qrare women:

The gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies:

The fire shall devour thy ^rbars.

^14sDraw thee waters for the siege, ^tfortify thy strong holds:

Go into clay, and tread ^ttthe morter, make strong the brickkiln.

¹⁵There shall the fire devour thee;

The sword shall cut thee off,

It shall eat thee up like ^uthe cankerworm:

Make thyself many as ^uthe cankerworm,

Make thyself many as ^uthe locusts.

¹⁶Thou hast multiplied ^vthy merchants above the stars of heaven:

^uThe cankerworm ^||wspoileth, and flieth away.

^17xThy crowned are as ^uthe locusts, and thy ^ycaptains as ^zthe great grasshoppers,

Which camp in the hedges in the cold day,

But when the sun ariseth they flee away,

And their place is not known where they are.

¹⁸Thy shepherds ^aslumber, ^bO king of Assyria: thy ^||cnobles shall ^ddwell in the dust:

Thy people ^eis scattered upon the mountains, and ^fno man gathereth them.

¹⁹There is no ^†healing of ^gthy bruise; ^hthy wound is grievous:

All that hear ⁱthe bruit of thee ^kshall clap the hands over thee:

For ^lupon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?