Nahum 3

¹Woe to the city of blood,

²The crack of the whip,

³Charging horseman,

⁴because of the many harlotries of the harlot,

⁵“Behold, I am against you,”

⁶I will pelt you with filth

⁷Then all who see you

⁸Are you better than Thebes,3:8 Hebrew No-amon

⁹Cush 3:9 That is, the upper Nile region and Egypt were her boundless strength;

¹⁰Yet she became an exile;

¹¹You too will become drunk;

¹²All your fortresses are fig trees

¹³Look at your troops—

¹⁴Draw your water for the siege;

¹⁵There the fire will devour you;

¹⁶You have multiplied your merchants

¹⁷Your guards 3:17 Or princes are like the swarming locust,

¹⁸O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber;

¹⁹There is no healing for your injury;