Nahum 3

1 What a disaster is coming upon this murderous city with all its treachery! It is full of wealth it has robbed, and always has plenty of victims.

woe! city blood all her lie plunder full not to remove prey

2 Listen to the noise: whips crack, wheels clatter, horses gallop, chariots rattle!

voice: sound whip and voice quaking wheel and horse to rush and chariot to skip about

3 Horsemen charge, swords flash, spears glitter! Many dead, piles of corpses, countless bodies—so many that people stumble over them.

horseman to ascend: rise and flame sword and lightning spear and abundance slain: killed and heaviness corpse and nothing end to/for body (and to stumble *Q(K)*) in/on/with body their

4 All this happens because the repeated prostitution of Nineveh the prostitute, the beautiful mistress with her deadly charms who seduces nations into slavery by her prostitution and her witchcraft.

from abundance fornication to fornicate pleasant favor mistress sorcery [the] to sell nation in/on/with fornication her and family in/on/with sorcery her

5 Watch out! For I am against you, declares the Lord Almighty. I will lift your skirts over your face and let the nations see your nakedness, and kingdoms see your shame.

look! I to(wards) you utterance LORD Hosts and to reveal: uncover hem your upon face your and to see: see nation nakedness your and kingdom dishonor your

6 I will throw filth at you. I will treat you with contempt, and make a spectacle of you.

and to throw upon you abomination and be senseless you and to set: make you like/as sight

7 Then everyone who sees you will shun you saying, “Nineveh is ruined! But who is going to mourn your loss?” Where should I look to find anyone to comfort you?

and to be all to see: see you to wander from you and to say to ruin Nineveh who? to wander to/for her from where? to seek to be sorry: comfort to/for you

8 Are you any better than the city of Thebes on the River Nile, surrounded by water? Water was its defense, water was its wall.

be good from Thebes Amon [the] to dwell in/on/with Nile water around to/for her which rampart sea from sea wall her

9 The city ruled Egypt and Ethiopia. Put and Libya were its allies.

Cush strength her and Egypt and nothing end Put and Libyan to be in/on/with help your

10 Yet its people were also taken away into exile, into captivity. Their babies were dashed to pieces in every street. Their nobles were bound in chains and taken away as servants, chosen by lot.

also he/she/it to/for captivity to go: went in/on/with captivity also infant her to dash in pieces in/on/with head: top all outside and upon to honor: honour her to cast a lot allotted and all great: large her to bind in/on/with fetter

11 You too will behave like a drunk. You will hide in fear, trying to find a place safe from the enemy.

also you(f. s.) be drunk to be to conceal also you(f. s.) to seek security from enemy

12 All your fortresses are like fig trees ripe with fruit—they fall when they are shaken into the mouth of the one eating.

all fortification your fig with firstfruit if to shake and to fall: fall upon lip to eat

13 Look! Your soldiers are women among you. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; the bars of the gates will be set on fire.

behold people: soldiers your woman in/on/with entrails: among your to/for enemy your to open to open gate land: country/planet your to eat fire bar your

14 Store water to prepare for a siege! Strengthen your fortresses! Go to the clay pits to tread it well, mix the cement, get your brick molds ready!

water siege to draw to/for you to strengthen: strengthen fortification your to come (in): come in/on/with mud and to trample in/on/with clay to strengthen: hold brick

15 But even so, there the fire will consume you, you will be cut down by the sword. You will be destroyed as if you were devoured by a swarm of locusts. So multiply yourselves like locusts, like a swarm of locusts.

there to eat you fire to cut: cut you sword to eat you like/as locust to honor: many like/as locust to honor: many like/as locust

16 You increased your merchants so that there are more of them than the stars of heaven. But like locusts they strip everything and then fly away.

to multiply to trade your from star [the] heaven locust to strip and to fly

17 Your leaders are like locusts, your officials like a swarm of locusts. They rest on walls on a cold day, but when the sun rises they fly away, and no one knows where they've gone.

prince your like/as locust and official your like/as locust locust [the] to camp in/on/with wall in/on/with day cold sun to rise and to wander and not to know place his where? they

18 King of Assyria, your shepherds are asleep, your princes are slumbering. Your people are scattered across the mountains and no one can gather them.

to slumber to pasture your king Assyria to dwell great your to scatter people your upon [the] mountain: mount and nothing to gather

19 There is no way to heal your injuries, you are too badly wounded. Everyone who hears this news will applaud what has happened to you, for was there anyone who escaped your continuous cruelty?

nothing easing to/for breaking your be weak: grieved wound your all to hear: hear report your to blow palm upon you for upon who? not to pass distress: evil your continually