Nahum 3:1 KJV — MannaFest

Nahum 3:1

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

KJV

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ASV

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

WEB

Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

YLT

Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies--burglary--full, Prey doth not depart.

DBT

Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and] violence; the prey departeth not.

About this book

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Nahum — A century after Jonah, Nineveh is still Nineveh — and Nahum's burden is the city's destruction. Three short chapters of breathtaking poetry on the fall of Assyria's capital.

Author: Nahum the Elkoshite (1:1)
Date: Between 663 BC (the fall of Thebes, 3:8) and 612 BC (Nineveh's actual fall)

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14 verses on the floor

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!
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.
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.

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Though hv, eu, sometimes means Woe; yet it is put here as though the Prophet would have constrained Nineveh to undergo its punishment, O sanguinary city, then, the whole of it is full of kchs cachesh: the word signifies leanness and the Prophet no doubt joins here together two words, which seem to differ widely, and yet they signify the same thing.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

Instances of like judgments for like sins, ver. 18-11. The overthrow of all wherein they trusted, ver. 12-19.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

Nineveh had with her cruelties been a terror and destruction to others, and therefore destruction and terror shall be brought upon her. Those that are for overthrowing all that come in their way will, sooner or later, meet with their match.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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