1 Of the fall of Ninevah. 8 No power can escape the hand of God.

O bloody city, it is all full of lies and robbery: [a]the prey departeth not.

The noise of a whip, [b]and the noise of the moving of the wheels, and the beating of the horses, and the leaping of the chariots.

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:1 It never ceaseth to spoil and rob.
  2. Nahum 3:2 He showeth how the Chaldeans shall haste, and how courageous their horses shall be in beating the ground when they come against the Assyrians.

Woe to Nineveh

Woe to the city of blood,(A)
    full of lies,(B)
full of plunder,
    never without victims!
The crack of whips,
    the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
    and jolting chariots!

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