Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departs not;
Updated King James Version
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 shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
Ezekiel 22:2Now, you son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? yea, you shall show her all her abominations.
Ezekiel 24:9Therefore thus says the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great.
Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him that 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 →