American Standard Version  Nahum 2  The Book of Nahum  Return to
Index  Chapter 3   Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of
lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.   The noise of the
whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing
horses, and bounding chariots,   the horseman mounting, and the
flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of
slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the
bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;-   because of the
multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favored harlot, the
mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her
whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.   Behold, I am
against thee, saith Jehovah of hosts, and I will uncover thy
skirts upon thy face; and I will show the nations thy nakedness,
and the kingdoms thy shame.       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] her wall was of the
sea?     Yet was she carried away, s