1 Disaster to the city of blood, packed throughout with lies, stuffed with booty, where plundering has no end!
2 The crack of the whip! The rumble of wheels! Galloping horse, jolting chariot,
3 charging cavalry, flashing swords, gleaming spears, a mass of wounded, hosts of dead, countless corpses; they stumble over corpses-
4 because of the countless whorings of the harlot, the graceful beauty, the cunning witch, who enslaved nations by her harlotries and tribes by her spells.
5 Look, I am against you!- declares Yahweh Sabaoth- I shall lift your skirts as high as your face and show your nakedness to the nations, your shame to the kingdoms.
6 I shall pelt you with filth, I shall shame you and put you in the pillory.
7 Then all who look at you will shrink from you and say, 'Nineveh has been ruined!' Who will mourn for her? Where would I find people to comfort you?
8 Are you better off than No-Amon situated among rivers, her defences the seas, her rampart the waters?
9 In Ethiopia and Egypt lay her strength, and it was boundless; Put and the Libyans served in her army.
10 But she too went into exile, into captivity; her little ones too were dashed to pieces at every crossroad; lots were drawn for her nobles, all her great men were put in chains.
11 You too will become drunk, you will go into hiding; you too will have to search for a refuge from the enemy.
12 Your fortifications are all fig trees, with early ripening figs: as soon as they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Look at your people: you are a nation of women! The gates of your country gape open to your enemies; fire has devoured their bars!
14 Draw yourselves water for the siege, strengthen your fortifications! Into the mud with you, puddle the clay, repair the brick-kiln!
15 There the fire will burn you up, the sword will cut you down. Make yourselves as numerous as locusts, make yourselves as numerous as the hoppers,
16 let your commercial agents outnumber the stars of heaven,
17 your garrisons, like locusts, and your marshals, like swarms of hoppers! They settle on the walls when the day is cold. The sun appears, the locusts spread their wings, they fly away,away they fly, no one knows where. Alas,
18 your shepherds are asleep, king of Assyria, your bravest men slumber; your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
19 There is no remedy for your wound, your injury is past healing. All who hear the news of you clap their hands at your downfall. For who has not felt your unrelenting cruelty?
Versículos relacionados com Nahum, 3:
Naum 3 describes the destruction of Nineveh, the capital of the Assyrian Empire, for its corruption, violence and idolatry. The chapter announces the fall of the city and the defeat of its inhabitants, and describes the horror and chaos that follow its fall. The verses selected below are related to the themes of judgment, destruction and sin.
Isaiah 13:9: "Behold, the day of the Lord comes, horrendous, with fury and ardent wrath, to make the earth in the bleach, and to destroy sinners." This verse describes the day of God's judgment when he will come to punish sinners and bring destruction.
SHAPONIAS 1:15: "That day is a day of indignation, day of anguish and tightening, day of excitement and blow, day of darkness and darkness, day of clouds and dense darkness." This verse describes the terrible nature of God's judgment, which will bring destruction and suffering to sinners.
Jeremiah 50:31-32: "Behold, I am against you, O superb, says the Lord God of hosts, for your day came, the time when I will visit you. And the superb will stumble, and fall, and not There will be those who get up; and I will set fire to their cities, and consume all their surroundings. " This verse speaks of the fall of a superb city and the following destruction.
Jeremiah 51:37: "And Babylon will become in Montões, dwelling of Chacals, astonishment and whistle, without inhabitant." This verse describes the destruction of a city and its transformation into ruins.
Isaiah 47:11: "From what shall come upon you evil that you will not know how to conjure, and such destruction shall fall upon you that you may in no way be guessed; and you will suddenly come to the one not suspected." This verse speaks of the destruction that will come upon the wicked suddenly and unexpectedly, as a divine judgment on sin.
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