Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
In Context
2Hark! the whip, and hark! the rattling of the wheels; and prancing horses, and bounding chariots;
Cross References
Isaiah 24:9They drink not wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
Ezekiel 22:2'Now, thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.
Ezekiel 24:9Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great,
Nahum 2:12(2-13) The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth 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 →