Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, filled with all manner of lies and violence. Crime shall not depart from you:
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 24:9They will not drink wine with a song. The drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
Ezekiel 22:2“And you, son of man, should you not judge, should you not judge the city of blood?
Ezekiel 24:9Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Woe to the city of blood, out of which I will make a great funeral pyre.
Nahum 2:12The lion seized enough for his young, and killed enough for his lionesses, and he filled his caves with prey, and his den with spoils.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a town with blood and prepares a city by iniquity.
Matthew Henry on Nahum 3:1
This chapter goes on with the burden of Nineveh, and concludes it. I. The sins of that great city are charged upon it, murder ( ver. 1 ), whoredom and witchcraft ( ver. 4 ), and a general extent of wickedness, ver. 19 . II. Judgments are here threatened against it, blood for blood ( ver. 2, 3 ), and shame for shameful sins, ver. 5-7 . III. Instances are given of the like desolations brought upon other places for the like sins, ver. 8-11 . IV. The overthrow of all those things which they depended upon, and put… Read the whole commentary →