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Nahum 3 |
King James Version
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Nahum 3:1 Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not;
Let us mourn with Nahum and let us say with him, “Woe to him that builds up this house [by injustice].” Or rather let us mourn for them as Christ did in his day, when he said, “Woe to you rich, for you are now having your reward and your comfort.” Let us not, I beseech you, cease mourning in this way, and if it is not unbecoming, let us also bewail the apathy of our brothers. Let us not weep loudly for him who is already dead, but let us weep for the robber, the grasping, miserly, greedy man.
The prophet was probably reminding them of the deluge that affected the whole human race at the time of Noah; it was then that God moved also in an earthquake against everyone, as it were, raising clouds and, according to the sacred text, releasing the waterfalls of heaven, and flooding the earth under heaven with incessant rain. (Gn 7.11) So he is asking, how would the one who easily prevails over the whole earth and with a single decree destroys everyone in it fail before a single nation, the Babylonian? In a manner, quite befitting God he says, clouds are dust of his feet: just as it is easy for a human being to kick up dust and dirt with a foot, likewise in my view it is a simple matter for the all-powerful God to obscure the sky with tempest and clouds. If, on the other hand, it was necessary to plumb the hidden meaning of the text, I would think that this should be said: that in consummation and in earthquake the only-begotten Word of God took the way, or fulfillment, of the Incarnation. When he became like us, you see, he shook and brought consummation upon “the rulers, authorities, and cosmic powers of this present age” (Eph 6.12) by abolishing their oppression of us, canceling that ancient force, and destroying the very control of death and, in addition to it, sin. They became clouds of dust from his feet; just as dust is stirred up in front of the walker, so in advance of the Incarnation went the spiritual clouds, that is, the blessed prophets, employing a discourse that was rather obscure and not completely obvious, but bedewing with life-giving pronouncements the mind of those capable of understanding.
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Nahum 3:2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
Because they shook them and their branches violently. They destroyed weapons of their power from human beings, strong men disporting themselves in fire. The reins of their chariots on the day of his preparation, and the horses will be alarmed in the roads; the chariots will be confused and will collide in the streets; their appearance is like fiery torches, and they flash by like lightning. Since it was the omniscient God who made future events resound in the holy prophets, they necessarily foretold them as he wished. Often it came to them in actual visions of the events. Consequently, they were startled to see them occurring before their own eyes, as it were, and they delivered a prophecy of them. Something of this kind the prophet now seems to have experienced in the case of the inhabitants of Nineveh and the comrades of Cyrus: that they even shook them and their branches violently, and the prophecy was delivered as though by accident to the vines: the bunch is shaken and drops its grapes, either because a wild gale blows, or burning heat flares up, or some other damage so befalls it that even the branch itself along with its fruit proves to be divested even of its foliage. This was the way they shook them like vines. But their weapons were also destroyed, that is, their power, “weapons” sometimes meaning “power.” He says that the cavalry, fearsome though they are and skilled in fighting in chariots, were affected by such terrors as to be put to flight, colliding with one another, shattered and broken, and convinced that the enemy columns were advancing at such a rate as to be comparable to torches, and in their rapid and unbridled course burning them like lightning.
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Nahum 3:3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and [there is] a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and [there is] none end of [their] corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
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Nahum 3:4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
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Nahum 3:5 Behold, I [am] against thee, saith the LORD of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
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Nahum 3:6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
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Nahum 3:7 And it shall come to pass, [that] all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
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Nahum 3:8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, [that had] the waters round about it, whose rampart [was] the sea, [and] her wall [was] from the sea?
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Nahum 3:9 Ethiopia and Egypt [were] her strength, and [it was] infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
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Nahum 3:10 Yet [was] she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children 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 in chains.
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Nahum 3:11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
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Nahum 3:12 All thy strong holds [shall be like] fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Nahum 3:13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee [are] women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
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Nahum 3:14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
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Nahum 3:15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
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Nahum 3:16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and flieth away.
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Nahum 3:17 Thy crowned [are] as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, [but] when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they [are].
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Nahum 3:18 Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell [in the dust]: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth [them].
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Nahum 3:19 [There is] no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
