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The Doom of the Wicked City is Certain

Woe to the city that has shed much blood![a]
    She is a deceiver,[b]
She is filled with plunder,
    She has hoarded her spoils of war.[c]
The crack of the whip!
    The rumbling of the chariot wheel!
The galloping of the horse!
    The racing of the chariot!

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:1 Literally “bloods”
  2. Nahum 3:1 Literally “All of her is deception”
  3. Nahum 3:1 Literally “Prey does not depart”

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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