Nahum 3:7-9

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷Then all who see you will shrink from you and say,
“Nineveh is devastated; who will bemoan her?”
Where shall I seek comforters for you?

⁸Are you better than Thebes^[a]
    that sat by the Nile,
with water around her,
    her rampart a sea,
    water her wall?
⁹Ethiopia^[b] was her strength,
    Egypt too, and that without limit;
    Put and the Libyans were her^[c] helpers.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

Nahum 3:8 Heb No-amon
Nahum 3:9 Or Nubia; Heb Cush
Nahum 3:9 Gk: Heb your

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (NRSVCE)

New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.