Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.
World English Bible British
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 noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,
Cross References
Isaiah 24:9They will not drink wine with a song. Strong drink will be bitter to those who drink it.
Ezekiel 22:2“You, son of man, will you judge? Will you judge the bloody city? Then cause her to know all her abominations.
Ezekiel 24:9“‘Therefore the Lord GOD says: “Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great.
Nahum 2:12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled prey for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill and his dens with prey.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him who builds a town with blood, and establishes 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 →