Nahum 3
1 woe! city blood all her lie plunder full not to remove prey
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies [and] violence; the prey departeth not.
2 voice: sound whip and voice quaking wheel and horse to rush and chariot to skip about
The crack of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing horses, and of the bounding chariots!
3 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
The horseman springing up, and the glitter of the sword, and the flash of the spear, and a multitude of slain, and a mass of carcases, and no end of corpses: they stumble over their corpses.
4 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
— Because of the multitude of the fornications of the well-favoured harlot, mistress of sorceries, that selleth nations through her fornications, and families through her sorceries,
5 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
behold, I am against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts; and I will uncover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6 and to throw upon you abomination and be senseless you and to set: make you like/as sight
And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.
7 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
And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that see thee shall flee from thee, and shall say, Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8 be good from Thebes Amon [the] to dwell in/on/with Nile water around to/for her which rampart sea from sea wall her
Art thou better than No-Amon, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about her, whose rampart was the sea, [and] of the sea was her wall?
9 Cush strength her and Egypt and nothing end Put and Libyan to be in/on/with help your
Ethiopia was her strength, and Egypt, and it was infinite; Phut and the Libyans were her helpers.
10 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
She too was carried away, she went into captivity: her infants also were dashed in pieces, at the top of all the streets; and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound with chains.
11 also you(f. s.) be drunk to be to conceal also you(f. s.) to seek security from enemy
Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid; thou also shalt seek a refuge from the enemy.
12 all fortification your fig with firstfruit if to shake and to fall: fall upon lip to eat
All thy strongholds are [like] fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 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
Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are [as] women: the gates of thy land are set wide open unto thine enemies; the fire devoureth thy bars.
14 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
Draw thee water for the siege, strengthen thy fortresses; go into the clay, and tread the mortar, make strong the brick-kiln.
15 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
There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off; it shall devour thee like the cankerworm. Make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locust.
16 to multiply to trade your from star [the] heaven locust to strip and to fly
Thou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the stars of the heavens; the cankerworm spreadeth himself out and flieth away.
17 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
Thy chosen men are as the locusts, and thy captains as swarms of grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day: when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 to slumber to pasture your king Assyria to dwell great your to scatter people your upon [the] mountain: mount and nothing to gather
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria; thy nobles lie still; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
19 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
There is no healing of thy breach; thy wound is grievous; all that hear the report of thee clap the hands over thee; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
