Nahum 3:1

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A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.

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  • Ezek 24:6-9 : 6 For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it. 7 For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust; 8 In order that it might make wrath come up to give punishment, she has put her blood on the open rock, so that it may not be covered. 9 For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.
  • Nah 2:12 : 12 Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?
  • Hab 2:12 : 12 A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!
  • Zeph 3:1-3 : 1 Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town! 2 She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God. 3 Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.
  • Ezek 22:2-3 : 2 And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways. 3 And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 There is cursing and broken faith, violent death and attacks on property, men are untrue in married life, houses are broken into, and there is blood touching blood.
  • Isa 17:14 : 14 In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.
  • Isa 24:9 : 9 There is no more drinking of wine with a song; strong drink will be bitter to those who take it.
  • Isa 42:24 : 24 Who gave up Jacob to those who took away his goods, and Israel to his attackers? Did not the Lord? he against whom they did wrong, and in whose ways they would not go, turning away from his teaching.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Nah 3:2-3
    2 verses
    81%

    2The noise of the whip, and the noise of thundering wheels; horses rushing and war-carriages jumping,

    3Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:

  • Zeph 3:1
    80%

    1Sorrow to her who is uncontrolled and unclean, the cruel town!

  • Ezek 24:6-7
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    78%

    6For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.

    7For her blood is in her; she has put it on the open rock not draining it on to the earth so that it might be covered with dust;

  • Isa 1:21
    78%

    21The upright town has become untrue; there was a time when her judges gave right decisions, when righteousness had a resting-place in her, but now she is full of those who take men's lives.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    78%

    10By day and night they go round the town, on the walls; trouble and sorrow are in the heart of it.

    11Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

  • Hab 2:12
    76%

    12A curse on him who is building a place with blood, and basing a town on evil-doing!

  • Ezek 24:9
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    9For this cause the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood! and I will make great the burning mass.

  • Zeph 2:15
    74%

    15This is the town which was full of joy, living without fear of danger, saying in her heart, I am, and there is no other: how has she been made waste, a place for beasts to take their rest in! everyone who goes by her will make hisses, waving his hand.

  • Isa 22:1-2
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    74%

    1The word about the valley of vision. Why have all your people gone up to the house-tops?

    2You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.

  • Mic 6:12
    74%

    12For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

  • Jer 4:29
    73%

    29All the land is in flight because of the noise of the horsemen and the bowmen; they have taken cover in the woodland and up on the rocks: every town has been given up, not a man is living in them.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

  • Ezek 22:27
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    27Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.

  • Hab 2:8
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    8Because you have taken their goods from great nations, all the rest of the peoples will take your goods from you; because of men's blood and violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

  • Mic 3:10
    72%

    10They are building up Zion with blood, and Jerusalem with evil-doing.

  • Jer 6:6-7
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    72%

    6For this is what the Lord of armies has said: Let trees be cut down and an earthwork be placed against Jerusalem: sorrow on the false town! inside her there is nothing but cruel ways.

    7As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.

  • Ezek 11:6
    72%

    6You have made great the number of your dead in this town, you have made its streets full of dead men.

  • Isa 33:1
    72%

    1Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you.

  • Isa 3:26
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    26And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.

  • Hab 2:17
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    17For the violent acts against Lebanon will come on you, and the destruction of the cattle will be a cause of fear to you, because of men's blood and the violent acts against the land and the town and all who are living in it.

  • Ezek 22:1-3
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    1And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

    2And you, son of man, will you be a judge, will you be a judge of the town of blood? then make clear to her all her disgusting ways.

    3And you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: A town causing blood to be drained out in her streets so that her time may come, and making images in her to make her unclean!

  • Zeph 3:3-4
    2 verses
    71%

    3Her rulers are like loud-voiced lions in her; her judges are wolves of the evening, crushing up the bones before the morning.

    4Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.

  • Lam 4:13
    71%

    13It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

  • Jer 19:8
    71%

    8And I will make this town a thing of wonder and a cause of surprise; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder and make sounds of surprise, because of all its troubles.

  • Zeph 1:10-11
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    71%

    10And in that day, says the Lord, there will be the sound of a cry from the fish doorway, and an outcry from the new town, and a great thundering from the hills, and cries of grief from the people of the Hollow;

    11Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.

  • Hos 6:8
    71%

    8Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.

  • Isa 24:12
    71%

    12In the town all is waste, and in the public place is destruction.

  • Ezek 9:9
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    9Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

  • Rom 3:15
    70%

    15Their feet are quick in running after blood;

  • Isa 3:8-9
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    70%

    8For Jerusalem has become feeble, and destruction has come on Judah, because their words and their acts are against the Lord, moving the eyes of his glory to wrath.

    9Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Ezek 26:10-12
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    70%

    10Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

    11Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.

    12They will take by force all your wealth and go off with the goods with which you do trade: they will have your walls broken down and all the houses of your desire given up to destruction: they will put your stones and your wood and your dust deep in the water.

  • Joel 3:19
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    19Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

  • Ezek 22:25
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    25Her rulers in her are like a loud-voiced lion violently taking his food; they have made a meal of souls; they have taken wealth and valued property; they have made great the number of widows in her.

  • Mic 3:12
    70%

    12For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.

  • Jer 10:22
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    22News is going about, see, it is coming, a great shaking is coming from the north country, so that the towns of Judah may be made waste and become the living-place of jackals.

  • Jer 22:8
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    8And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?

  • Jer 50:37
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    37A sword is on all the mixed people in her, and they will become like women: a sword is on her store-houses, and they will be taken by her attackers.

  • Ezek 9:1
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    1Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.