| Nahum 3 - Versions
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| Nahum 3 Text (WEB)
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- Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.
- The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
- the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies,
- because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft.
- "Behold, I am against you," says Yahweh of Armies, "and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame.
- I will throw abominable filth on you, and make you vile, and will set you a spectacle.
- It will happen that all those who look at you will flee from you, and say, 'Nineveh is laid waste! Who will mourn for her?' Where will I seek comforters for you?"
- Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her; whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
- Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
- Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
- You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
- All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs: if they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
- Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
- Draw water for the siege. Strengthen your fortresses. Go into the clay, and tread the mortar. Make the brick kiln strong.
- There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
- You have increased your merchants more than the stars of the skies. The grasshopper strips, and flees away.
- Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
- Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
- There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn't felt your endless cruelty?
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| Nahum 3 Text (Hebrew)
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- הוי עיר דמים כלה כחש פרק מלאה לא ימיש טרף׃
- קול שוט וקול רעש אופן וסוס דהר ומרכבה מרקדה׃
- פרש מעלה ולהב חרב וברק חנית ורב חלל וכבד פגר ואין קצה לגויה בגויתם׃
- מרב זנוני זונה טובת חן בעלת כשפים המכרת גוים בזנוניה ומשפחות בכשפיה׃
- הנני אליך נאם יהוה צבאות וגליתי שוליך על־פניך והראיתי גוים מערך וממלכות קלונך׃
- והשלכתי עליך שקצים ונבלתיך ושמתיך כראי׃
- והיה כל־ראיך ידוד ממך ואמר שדדה נינוה מי ינוד לה מאין אבקש מנחמים לך׃
- התיטבי מנא אמון הישבה ביארים מים סביב לה אשר־חיל ים מים חומתה׃
- כוש עצמה ומצרים ואין קצה פוט ולובים היו בעזרתך׃
- גם־היא לגלה הלכה בשבי גם עלליה ירטשו בראש כל־חוצות ועל־נכבדיה ידו גורל וכל־גדוליה רתקו בזקים׃
- גם־את תשכרי תהי נעלמה גם־את תבקשי מעוז מאויב׃
- כל־מבצריך תאנים עם־בכורים אם־ינועו ונפלו על־פי אוכל׃
- הנה עמך נשים בקרבך לאיביך פתוח נפתחו שערי ארצך אכלה אש בריחיך׃
- מי מצור שאבי־לך חזקי מבצריך באי בטיט ורמסי בחמר החזיקי מלבן׃
- שם תאכלך אש תכריתך חרב תאכלך כילק התכבד כילק התכבדי כארבה׃
- הרבית רכליך מכוכבי השמים ילק פשט ויעף׃
- מנזריך כארבה וטפסריך כגוב גבי החונים בגדרות ביום קרה שמש זרחה ונודד ולא־נודע מקומו אים׃
- נמו רעיך מלך אשור ישכנו אדיריך נפשו עמך על־ההרים ואין מקבץ׃
- אין־כהה לשברך נחלה מכתך כל שמעי שמעך תקעו כף עליך כי על־מי לא־עברה רעתך תמיד׃
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| Nahum 3 Text (Latin)
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- Væ civitas sanguinum, universa mendacii dilaceratione plena ! non recedet a te rapina.
- Vox flagelli, et vox impetus rotæ, et equi frementis, et quadrigæ ferventis, et equitis ascendentis,
- et micantis gladii, et fulgurantis hastæ, et multitudinis interfectæ, et gravis ruinæ ; nec est finis cadaverum, et corruent in corporibus suis.
- Propter multitudinem fornicationum meretricis speciosæ, et gratæ, et habentis maleficia, quæ vendidit gentes in fornicationibus suis, et familias in maleficiis suis.
- Ecce ego ad te, dicit Dominus exercituum, et revelabo pudenda tua in facie tua ; et ostendam gentibus nuditatem tuam, et regnis ignominiam tuam.
- Et projiciam super te abominationes, et contumeliis te afficiam, et ponam te in exemplum.
- Et erit : omnis qui viderit te resiliet a te, et dicet : Vastata est Ninive. Quis commovebit super te caput ? unde quæram consolatorem tibi ?
- Numquid melior es Alexandria populorum, quæ habitat in fluminibus ? aquæ in circuti ejus ; cujus divitiæ, mare ; aquæ, muri ejus.
- Æthiopia fortitudo ejus, et Ægyptus, et non est finis ; Africa et Lybies fuerunt in auxilio tuo.
- Sed et ipsa in transmigrationem ducta est in captivitatem : parvuli ejus elisi sunt in capite omnium viarum, et super inclytos ejus miserunt sortem, et omnes optimates ejus confixi sunt in compedibus.
- Et tu ergo inebriaberis, et eris despecta : et tu quæres auxilium ab inimico.
- Omnes munitiones tuæ sicut ficus cum grossis suis : si concussæ fuerint, cadent in os comedentis.
- Ecce populus tuus mulieres in medio tui : inimicis tuis adapertione pandentur portæ terræ tuæ, devorabit ignis vectes tuos.
- Aquam propter obsidionem hauri tibi : exstrue munitiones tuas, intra in lutum, et calca, subigens tene laterem.
- Ibi comedet te ignis, peribis gladio, devorabit te ut bruchus : congregare ut bruchus, multiplicare ut locusta.
- Plures fecisti negotiationes tuas quam stellæ sint cæli ; bruchus expansus est, et avolavit.
- Custodes tui quasi locustæ, et parvuli tui quasi locustæ locustarum, quæ considunt in sepibus in die frigoris : sol ortus est, et avolaverunt, et non est cognitus locus earum ubi fuerint.
- Dormitaverunt pastores tui, rex Assur, sepelientur principes tui : latitavit populus tuus in montibus, et non est qui congreget.
- Non est obscura contritio tua ; pessima est plaga tua. Omnes qui audierunt auditionem tuam compresserunt manum super te : quia super quem non transiit malitia tua semper ?
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| Nahum 3 Text (KJV)
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- Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
- The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
- The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
- Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
- Behold, I am against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
- And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
- And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
- Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
- Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
- Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children 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 in chains.
- Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
- All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
- Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
- Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
- There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
- Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
- Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the 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.
- Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
- There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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