< Naum 3 >
1 O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.
Woe to! [the] city of blood all of it lying plunder [is] full not it will depart prey.
2 The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot,
[the] sound of A whip and [the] sound of [the] rattling of a wheel and a horse galloping and a chariot jolting.
3 and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies
A horseman bringing up and [the] blade of a sword and [the] flash of a spear and [the] multitude of [the] slain and [the] weight of corpse[s] and there not [is] an end to the bodi[es] (and people will stumble *Q(K)*) over bodi[es] their.
4 because of the abundance of fornication: [she is] a fair harlot, and well-favoured, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries.
From [the] abundance of [the] prostitution of a prostitute good of grace a mistress of sorceries who sells nations by prostitution her and clans by sorceries her.
5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover thy skirts in thy presence, and I will shew the nations thy shame, and the kingdoms thy disgrace.
Here I [am] against you [the] utterance of Yahweh of hosts and I will uncover skirts your on face your and I will show nations nakedness your and kingdoms shame your.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee according to thine unclean ways, and will make thee a public example.
And I will throw on you detestable things and I will treat with contempt you and I will make you like a spectacle.
7 And it shall be [that] every one that sees thee shall go down from thee, and shall say, Wretched Nineve! who shall lament for her? whence shall I seek comfort for her?
And it will be all [those who] see you he will flee from you and he will say it is devastated Nineveh who? will he show sympathy to it from where? will I seek comforters for you.
8 Prepare thee a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water.
¿ Have you been made good more than No Amon that was dwelling among the canals water [was] all around it which rampart [was the] sea [was] from sea wall its.
9 And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight [of her enemies]; and the Libyans became her helpers.
Cush [was] strength its and Egypt and there not [was] an end Put and [the] Libyans they were help your.
10 Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious [possessions], and all her nobles shall be bound in chains.
Also it to exile it went in captivity also children its they were dashed in pieces at [the] head of all [the] streets and on honored [people] its they cast a lot and all great [people] its they were bound with fetters.
11 And thou shalt be drunken, and shalt be overlooked; and thou shalt seek for thyself strength because of [thine] enemies.
Also you you will become drunk it will be hidden also you you will seek a refuge from [the] enemy.
12 All thy strong-holds are as fig-trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater.
All fortifications your [are] fig trees with first-fruits if they will be shaken and they will fall on [the] mouth of an eater.
13 Behold, thy people within thee are as women: the gates of thy land shall surely be opened to thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
There! people your [are] women in midst your to enemies your certainly they will be opened [the] gates of land your it will consume fire bars your.
14 Draw thee water for a siege, and well secure thy strong-holds: enter into the clay, and be thou trodden in the chaff, make [the fortifications] stronger than brick.
Water of siege draw for yourself strengthen fortifications your go in the clay and trample on the mortar take hold of a brick mold.
15 There the fire shall devour thee; the sword shall utterly destroy thee, it shall devour thee as the locust, and thou shalt be pressed down as a palmerworm.
There it will consume you fire it will cut off you [the] sword it will consume you like the locust make yourself numerous like the locust make yourself numerous like the locust.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked [it], and has flown away.
You have increased traders your more than [the] stars of the heavens a locust it strips off and it flew away.
17 Thy mixed [multitude] has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them!
Courtiers your [are] like the locust and officials your [are] like a locust of locusts which encamp in the walls on a day of coldness [the] sun it rises and it flees and not it is known place its where [are]? they.
18 Thy shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low thy mighty men: thy people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive [them].
They are slumbering shepherds your O king of Assyria they settle down nobles your they are scattered people your on the mountains and there not [is one who] gathers [them].
19 There is no healing for thy bruise; thy wound has rankled: all that hear the report of thee shall clap their hands against thee; for upon whom has not thy wickedness passed continually?
There not [is] relief for fracture your [is] severe wound your all - [those who] hear report your they strike a palm on you for over whom? not has it passed evil your continually.