Nahum 3:1
O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.
Brenton Septuagint
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 are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.
Ezekiel 22:2And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, declare thou to her all her iniquities.
Ezekiel 24:9Therefore thus saith the Lord, I will also make the firebrand great,
Nahum 2:12Where is the dwelling-place of the lions, and the pasture that belonged to the whelps? where did the lion go, that the lion's whelp should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away?
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.
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 →