Nahum 3 Bible Study

Day 1 · Judgment on Nineveh

Nahum 3:1–13

¹Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. ²The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot! ³Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead— ⁴because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft. ⁵“Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms. ⁶I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you. ⁷Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?” ⁸Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water? ⁹Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies. ¹⁰Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains. ¹¹You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy. ¹²All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater! ¹³Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.

Berean Standard Bible