Nahum 3:1

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Wo `to' the city of blood, She is all with lies -- burglary -- full, Prey doth not depart.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezek 24:6-9 : 6 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the city of blood, A pot whose scum `is' in it, And its scum hath not come out of it, By piece of it, by piece of it bring it out, Not fallen on it hath a lot. 7 For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust. 8 To cause fury to come up to take vengeance, I have put her blood on a clear place of a rock -- not to be covered. 9 Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the city of blood, yea, I -- I make great the pile.
  • Nah 2:12 : 12 The lion is tearing parts `for' his whelps, And is strangling for his lionesses, And he doth fill `with' prey his holes, And his habitations `with' rapine.
  • Hab 2:12 : 12 Wo `to' him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.
  • Zeph 3:1-3 : 1 Wo `to' the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city! 2 She hath not hearkened to the voice, She hath not accepted instruction, In Jehovah she hath not trusted, Unto her God she hath not drawn near. 3 Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.
  • Ezek 22:2-3 : 2 `And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations, 3 and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement.
  • Hos 4:2 : 2 Swearing, and lying, and murdering, And stealing, and committing adultery -- have increased, And blood against blood hath touched.
  • Isa 17:14 : 14 At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This `is' the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!
  • Isa 24:9 : 9 With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.
  • Isa 42:24 : 24 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, And Israel to the spoilers? Is it not Jehovah -- He against whom we sinned? Yea, they have not been willing in His ways to walk, Nor have they hearkened to His law.

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    2The sound of a whip, And the sound of the rattling of a wheel, And of a prancing horse, and of a bounding chariot, Of a horseman mounting.

    3And the flame of a sword, and the lightning of a spear, And the abundance of the wounded, And the weight of carcases, Yea, there is no end to the bodies, They stumble over their bodies.

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    1Wo `to' the rebellious and polluted, The oppressing city!

  • Ezek 24:6-7
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    6Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the city of blood, A pot whose scum `is' in it, And its scum hath not come out of it, By piece of it, by piece of it bring it out, Not fallen on it hath a lot.

    7For her blood in her midst hath been, On a clear place of a rock she hath set it, She hath not poured it on the earth, To cover it over with dust.

  • Isa 1:21
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    21How hath a faithful city become a harlot? I have filled it `with' judgment, Righteousness lodgeth in it -- now murderers.

  • Ps 55:10-11
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    10By day and by night they go round it, on its walls. Both iniquity and perverseness `are' in its midst,

    11Mischiefs `are' in its midst. Fraud and deceit depart not from its street.

  • Hab 2:12
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    12Wo `to' him who is building a city by blood, And establishing a city by iniquity.

  • Ezek 24:9
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    9Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Wo `to' the city of blood, yea, I -- I make great the pile.

  • Zeph 2:15
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    15This `is' the exulting city that is dwelling confidently, That is saying in her heart, `I `am', and beside me there is none,' How hath she been for a desolation, A crouching-place for beasts, Every one passing by her doth hiss, He doth shake his hand!

  • Isa 22:1-2
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    1The burden of the Valley of Vision. What -- to thee, now, that thou hast gone up, All of thee -- to the roofs?

    2Full of stirs -- a noisy city -- an exulting city, Thy pierced are not pierced of the sword, Nor dead in battle.

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    12Whose rich ones have been full of violence, And its inhabitants have spoken falsehood, And their tongue `is' deceitful in their mouth.

  • Jer 4:29
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    29From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Make the chain; for the land Hath been full of bloody judgments, And the city hath been full of violence.

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    27Its princes in its midst `are' as wolves, Tearing prey, to shed blood, to destroy souls, For the sake of gaining dishonest gain.

  • Hab 2:8
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    8Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it.

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    10Building up Zion with blood, And Jerusalem with iniquity.

  • Jer 6:6-7
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    6For thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Cut down her wood, And pour out against Jerusalem a mount, She `is' the city to be inspected, Wholly -- she is oppression in her midst.

    7As the digging of a well, is `for' its waters, So she hath digged `for' her wickedness, Violence and spoil is heard in her, Before My face continually `are' sickness and smiting.

  • Ezek 11:6
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    6Ye multiplied your wounded in this city, And filled its out-places with the wounded.

  • Isa 33:1
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    1Wo, spoiler! and thou not spoiled, And treacherous! and they dealt not treacherously with thee, When thou dost finish, O spoiler, thou art spoiled, When thou dost finish dealing treacherously, They deal treacherously with thee.

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    26And lamented and mourned have her openings, Yea, she hath been emptied, on the earth she sitteth!

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    17For violence `to' Lebanon doth cover thee, And spoil of beasts doth affright them, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it.

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    1And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

    2`And thou, son of man, dost thou judge? dost thou judge the city of blood? then thou hast caused it to know all its abominations,

    3and thou hast said: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: The city is shedding blood in its midst, For the coming in of its time, And it hath made idols on it for defilement.

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    3Her heads in her midst `are' roaring lions, Her judges `are' evening wolves, They have not gnawn the bone in the morning.

    4Her prophets unstable -- men of treachery, Her priests have polluted the sanctuary, They have violated the law.

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    13Because of the sins of her prophets, The iniquities of her priests, Who are shedding in her midst the blood of the righteous,

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    8and I have made this city for a desolation, and for a hissing, every passer by it is astonished, and doth hiss for all its plagues.

  • Zeph 1:10-11
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    10And there hath been in that day, An affirmation of Jehovah, The noise of a cry from the fish-gate, And of a howling from the Second, And of great destruction from the hills.

    11Howl, ye inhabitants of the hollow place, For cut off hath been all the merchant people, Cut off have been all bearing silver.

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    8Gilead `is' a city of workers of iniquity, Slippery from blood.

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    12Left in the city `is' desolation, And `with' wasting is the gate smitten.

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    15Swift `are' their feet to shed blood.

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    8For stumbled hath Jerusalem, and Judah hath fallen, For their tongue and their doings `are' against Jehovah, To provoke the eyes of His glory.

    9The appearance of their faces witnessed against them, And their sin, as Sodom, they declared, They have not hidden! Wo to their soul, For they have done to themselves evil.

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    10From the abundance of his horses cover thee doth their dust, From the noise of horseman, and wheel, and rider, Shake do thy walls, in his coming in to thy gates, As the coming into a city broken-up.

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    12And they have spoiled thy wealth, And they have plundered thy merchandise, And they have thrown down thy walls, And thy desirable houses they break down, And thy stones, and thy wood, and thy dust, In the midst of the waters they place.

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    19Egypt a desolation becometh, And Edom a desolation, a wilderness, becometh, For violence `to' sons of Judah, Whose innocent blood they shed in their land.

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    25A conspiracy of its prophets `is' in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.

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    12Therefore, for your sake, Zion is ploughed a field, and Jerusalem is heaps, And the mount of the house `is' for high places of a forest!

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    22A voice of a report, lo, it hath come, Even a great shaking from the north country, To make the cities of Judah a desolation, A habitation of dragons.

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    8And many nations have passed by this city, And they have said, each to his neighbour, For what hath Jehovah done thus to this great city?

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    37A sword `is' on his horses and on his chariot, And on all the rabble who `are' in her midst, And they have become women; A sword `is' on her treasuries, And they have been spoiled;

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    1And He crieth in mine ears -- a loud voice -- saying, `Drawn near have inspectors of the city, and each his destroying weapon in his hand.'