Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! Full of lies and plunder, without end is the spoil.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
In Context
2Hear the crack of the whip, hear the rattle of wheels. Galloping horses, jolting chariots.
Cross References
Nahum 2:12The lion tore enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses. He filled his caves with the kill, he filled his lairs with fresh meat.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to the person who builds a city by bloodshed, and founds a town by crime
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 →