Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
Nahum 3:1 in other translations
| BSB | Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. |
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| WEB | Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey. |
| ASV | Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. |
| YLT | Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies--burglary--full, Prey doth not depart. |
| DARBY | Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and violence; the prey departeth not. |
| BBE | A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life. |
| Webster | Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robberies; the prey departeth not; |
What does Nahum 3:1 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Na 3:1-19. Repetition of Nineveh's Doom, with New Features; the Cause Is Her Tyranny, Rapine, and Cruelty: No-ammon's Fortifications Did Not Save Her; It Is Vain, Therefore, for Nineveh to Think Her Defenses Will Secure Her against God's Sentence.
1. the bloody city!--literally, "city of blood," namely, shed by Nineveh; just so now her own blood is to be shed. robbery--violence [Maurer]. Extortion [Grotius]. the prey departeth not--Nineveh never ceases to live by rapine. Or, the Hebrew verb is transitive, "she (Nineveh) does not make the prey depart"; she ceases not to plunder.Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Introduction
The prophet denounces a wo against Nineveh for her perfidy and violence. He musters up before our eyes the number of her chariots and cavalry; points to her burnished arms, and to the great and unrelenting slaughter which she spreads around her, Nah 3:1-3. Because Nineveh is a city wholly given up to the grossest superstition, and is an instructress of other nations in her abominable rites, therefore she shall come to a most ignominious and unpitied end, Nah 3:3-7. Her final ruin shall be similar to that of No, a famous city of Egypt, Nah 3:8-11. The prophet then beautifully describes the great ease with which the strong holds of Nineveh should be taken, Nah 3:12, and her judicial pusillanimity during the siege, Nah 3:13; declares that all her preparation, her numbers, opulence, and chieftains, would be of no avail in the day of the Lord's vengeance, Nah 3:14-17; and that her tributaries would desert her, Nah 3:18. The whole concludes with stating the incurableness of her malady, and the dreadful destruction consequently awaiting her; and with introducing the nations which she had oppressed as exulting at her fall, Nah 3:19. Verse 1 Wo to the bloody city! - Nineveh: the threatenings against which are continued in a strain of invective, astonishing for its richness, variety, and energy. One may hear and see the whip crack, the horses prancing, the wheels rumbling, the chariots bounding after the galloping steeds; the reflection from the drawn and highly polished swords; and the hurled spears, like gashes of lightning, dazzling the eyes; the slain lying in heaps, and horses and chariots stumbling over them! O what a picture, and a true representation of a battle, when one side is broken, and all the cavalry of the conqueror fall in upon them, hewing them down with their swords, and trampling them to pieces under the hoofs of their horses! O! infernal war! Yet sometimes thou art the scourge of the Lord.Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Nahum 3:1-7
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Nahum 3:1 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Nahum 3:1
- Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!
- Zephaniah 3:1-3
Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
- Ezekiel 24:6-9
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it. For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust; That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered. Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
- Hosea 4:2
By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.
- Ezekiel 22:2-3
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations. Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself.
- Nahum 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
- Isaiah 42:24
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the Lord, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.
- Isaiah 17:14
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.
- Isaiah 24:9
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
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Context
- Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
- Nahum 3:2
The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Nahum 3:1 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | ¡AY de la ciudad de sangres, toda llena de mentira y de rapiña, sin apartarse de ella el pillaje! |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | *Malheur à la ville de sang, toute pleine de fausseté et de violence! la rapine ne la quitte pas. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Wehe der Blutstadt, ganz erfüllt mit Lüge und Gewalttat! das Rauben hört nicht auf. - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Væ civitas sanguinum, universa mendacii dilaceratione plena! non recedet a te rapina. |