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Nahum 3

Holman Christian Standard Bible, 2009 (HCSB)

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Habakkuk

¹ Woe to the city of blood, ⓐ totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey. ⓑ

² The crack of the whip and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and jolting chariot! ⓒ

³ Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end ⓓ — they stumble over their dead.

⁴ Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft, ⓔ

⁵ I am against you. ⓕ — This is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts. I will lift your skirts over your face and display your nakedness to nations, your shame to kingdoms. ⓖ

⁶ I will throw filth on you and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.

⁷ Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying, “Nineveh is devastated; who will show sympathy to her?” Where can I find anyone to comfort you?

⁸ Are you better than Thebes [1] ⓗ that sat along the Nile with water surrounding her, whose rampart was the sea, the river [2] [3] her wall?

⁹ Cush and Egypt were her endless source of strength; Put and Libya were among her [4] allies.

¹⁰ Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her children were also dashed to pieces ⓘ at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, ⓙ and all her nobles were bound in chains.

¹¹ You [5] also will become drunk; you will hide yourself. [6] You also will seek refuge from the enemy.

¹² All your fortresses are fig trees with figs that ripened first; when shaken, they fall — right into the mouth of the eater!

¹³ Look, your troops are like women among you; the gates of your land are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.

¹⁴ Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mold!

¹⁵ The fire will devour you there; the sword will cut you down. It will devour you like the young locust. ⓚ Multiply yourselves like the young locust, multiply like the swarming locust!

¹⁶ You have made your merchants ⓛ more numerous than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips [7] the land and flies away.

¹⁷ Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are.

¹⁸ King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together. ⓜ

¹⁹ There is no remedy for your injury; your wound is severe. ⓝ All who hear the news about you will clap their hands because of you, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

#	HCSB
1	Woe to the city of blood, ⓐ totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey. ⓑ
2	The crack of the whip and rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and jolting chariot! ⓒ
3	Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end ⓓ — they stumble over their dead.
4	Because of the continual prostitution of the prostitute, the attractive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft, ⓔ
5	I am against you. ⓕ — This is the declaration of the LORD of Hosts. I will lift your skirts over your face and display your nakedness to nations, your shame to kingdoms. ⓖ
6	I will throw filth on you and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
7	Then all who see you will recoil from you, saying, “Nineveh is devastated; who will show sympathy to her?” Where can I find anyone to comfort you?
8	Are you better than Thebes [1] ⓗ that sat along the Nile with water surrounding her, whose rampart was the sea, the river [2] [3] her wall?
9	Cush and Egypt were her endless source of strength; Put and Libya were among her [4] allies.
10	Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her children were also dashed to pieces ⓘ at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, ⓙ and all her nobles were bound in chains.
11	You [5] also will become drunk; you will hide yourself. [6] You also will seek refuge from the enemy.
12	All your fortresses are fig trees with figs that ripened first; when shaken, they fall — right into the mouth of the eater!
13	Look, your troops are like women among you; the gates of your land are wide open to your enemies. Fire will devour the bars of your gates.
14	Draw water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Step into the clay and tread the mortar; take hold of the brick-mold!
15	The fire will devour you there; the sword will cut you down. It will devour you like the young locust. ⓚ Multiply yourselves like the young locust, multiply like the swarming locust!
16	You have made your merchants ⓛ more numerous than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips [7] the land and flies away.
17	Your court officials are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day; when the sun rises, they take off, and no one knows where they are.
18	King of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered across the mountains with no one to gather them together. ⓜ
19	There is no remedy for your injury; your wound is severe. ⓝ All who hear the news about you will clap their hands because of you, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?

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