{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/nahum/3","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-26T22:02:18.015Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Nahum","bookSlug":"nahum","chapter":3,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":2,"nextChapter":null,"totalChapters":3,"totalVerses":19},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and violence; the prey departeth not."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"And it shall come to pass, that all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea, and of the sea was her wall?"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"All thy strongholds are like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are as women: the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire devoureth thy bars."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?"}],"citation":{"inline":"Nahum 3 (DBT)","markdown":"[Nahum 3](https://primebible.com/dbt/nahum/3)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/nahum/3 (accessed 2026-05-26)."}}