Nahum 3:1
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
In Context
2The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
Cross References
Isaiah 24:9They no longer sing and drink wine; strong drink is bitter to those who consume it.
Ezekiel 22:2“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations
Ezekiel 24:9Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
Nahum 2:12The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town 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 →