'Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine.' The battle noise stacks syllable on syllable: the whip, the rattling wheels, prancing horses, bounding chariots, the charging horseman, flashing sword and glittering spear, and 'a great heap of corpses; and there is no end of the bodies.' Nineveh is arraigned as a sorceress and a harlot who sold nations, and will be publicly stripped before them. Then the historical argument: Thebes sat among the rivers with Ethiopia and Egypt for strength, and went into captivity all the same. Her fortresses are fig trees that drop their first-ripe fruit into the eater's mouth at a shake; her hurt has no assuaging.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Prophecy · Nahum — Nahum overview

A. 1–7 Woe to the bloody city, full of lies and plunder
B. 8–13 Are you better than No-amon? Your forts are ripe figs
C. 14–19 Draw water for the siege — all who hear clap their hands

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Nahum 23 verses
- Nahum 2:1One who scatters advances against you, O Nineveh. Guard the fortress! Watch the road! Brace yourselves! Summon all your strength!
- Nahum 2:3The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.
- Nahum 2:13“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard.”
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Jeremiah 513 verses
- Jeremiah 51:27“Raise a banner in the land! Blow the ram’s horn among the nations! Prepare the nations against her. Summon the kingdoms against her—Ararat, Minni, and Ashkenaz. Appoint a captain against her; bring up horses like swarming locusts.
- Jeremiah 51:30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.
- Jeremiah 51:57I will make her princes and wise men drunk, along with her governors, officials, and warriors. Then they will fall asleep forever and not wake up,” declares the King, whose name is the LORD of Hosts.
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Isaiah 472 verses
- Isaiah 47:9These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.
- Isaiah 47:12So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!
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Revelation 182 verses
- Revelation 18:10In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- Revelation 18:23The light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voices of a bride and bridegroom will never call out in you again. For your merchants were the great ones of the earth, because all the nations were deceived by your sorcery.”
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Jeremiah 132 verses
- Jeremiah 13:22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
- Jeremiah 13:26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.
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Ezekiel 302 verses
- Ezekiel 30:5Cush, Put, and Lud, and all the various peoples, as well as Libya and the men of the covenant land, will fall with Egypt by the sword.
- Ezekiel 30:14I will lay waste Pathros, set fire to Zoan, and execute judgment on Thebes.
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Jeremiah 462 verses
- Jeremiah 46:3“Deploy your shields, small and large; advance for battle!
- Jeremiah 46:25The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh.
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Habakkuk 21 verse
- Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.