Nahum 3 Cross References - CAB

¹ O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled. ² The noise of whips, and the noise of the rumbling of wheels, and of the pursuing horse, and of the bounding chariot, ³ and of the mounting rider, and of the glittering sword, and of the gleaming arms, and of a multitude of slain, and of heavy falling: and there was no end to her nations, but they shall be weak in their bodies ⁴ because of the abundance of her fornication: she is a fair harlot, and well-favored, skilled in sorcery, that sells the nations by her fornication, and peoples by her sorceries. ⁵ Behold, I am against you, says the Lord God Almighty, and I will uncover your skirts in your presence, and I will show the nations your shame, and the kingdoms your disgrace. ⁶ And I will cast abominable filth upon you according to your unclean ways, and will make you a public spectacle. ⁷ And it shall be that everyone that sees you shall go down from you, and shall say, Wretched Nineveh! Who shall lament for her? Where shall I seek comfort for her? ⁸ Prepare a portion, tune the chord, prepare a portion for Ammon: she that dwells among the rivers, water is round about her, whose dominion is the sea, and whose walls are water. ⁹ And Ethiopia is her strength, and Egypt; and there was no limit of the flight of her enemies; and the Libyans became her helpers. ¹⁰ Yet she shall go as a prisoner into captivity, and they shall dash her infants against the ground at the top of all her ways: and they shall cast lots upon all her glorious possessions, and all her nobles shall be bound in chains. ¹¹ And you will be drunk, and shall be overlooked; and you will seek strength for yourself because of your enemies. ¹² All your strongholds are as fig trees having watchers: if they be shaken, they shall fall into the mouth of the eater. ¹³ Behold, your people within you are as women: the gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars. ¹⁴ Draw your water for a siege, and well secure your strongholds: enter into the clay, and thus be trodden in the chaff, make the fortifications stronger than brick. ¹⁵ There the fire shall devour you; the sword shall utterly destroy you, it shall devour you as the locust, and you shall be pressed down as a palmerworm. ¹⁶ You have multiplied your merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away. ¹⁷ Your mixed multitude has suddenly departed as the grasshopper, as the locust perched on a hedge in a frosty day; the sun arises, and it flies off, and knows not its place: woe to them! ¹⁸ Your shepherds have slumbered, the Assyrian king has laid low your mighty men: your people departed to the mountains, and there was none to receive them. ¹⁹ There is no healing for your bruise; your wound has rankled: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands against you; for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?

^{24 (3:25)} And He cast out Adam and caused him to dwell over against the garden of Delight, and stationed the cherubim and the fiery sword that turns about to keep the way of the tree of life

⁶ And the sons of Ham were Cush, Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

⁵ And He brought him out and said to him, Look up now to heaven, and count the stars, if you shall be able to number them fully, and He said, Thus shall your seed be.

¹⁷ surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and as the sand which is by the shore of the sea, and your seed shall inherit the cities of their enemies.

¹³ And Moses lifted up his rod towards heaven, and the Lord brought a south wind upon the earth, all that day and all that night. The morning dawned, and the south wind brought up the locusts, ¹⁴ and brought them up over all the land of Egypt. And they rested in very great abundance over all the borders of Egypt. Before them there were not such locusts, neither after them shall there be. ¹⁵ And they covered the face of the earth, and the land was wasted, and they devoured every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees, which was left by the hail: there was no green thing left on the trees, nor on all the herbs of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

¹⁶ Let trembling and fear fall upon them; by the greatness of Your arm, let them become as stone; till Your people pass over, O Lord, till this Your people pass over, whom You have purchased.

³⁴ And all Israel round about them fled from the sound of them, for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up, too!

²² When the hoofs of the horse were entangled, his mighty ones earnestly hastened

⁶ And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw near, and the people hid themselves in caves, sheepfolds, rocks, ditches, and pits.

¹¹ And they both went in to the garrison of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of their caves, where they had hidden themselves.

⁷ then I will cut off Israel from the land which I have given them, and this house which I have consecrated to My name I will cast out of My sight; and Israel shall be a desolation and a by-word to all nations. ⁸ And this house, which is high, shall be so that everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

¹⁷ And he said, Not so. I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains as a flock without a shepherd. And the Lord said, Is not God the Lord of these? Let each one return to his home in peace.

¹² And Hazael said, Why does my lord weep? And he said, Because I know all the evil that you will do to the children of Israel: you will utterly destroy their strongholds with fire, and you will slay their choice men with the sword, and you will dash their infants against the ground, and their women with child you will rip up.

³⁵ And it came to pass at night that the Angel of the Lord went forth, and killed in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they rose early in the morning, and behold, these were all dead corpses.

⁸ And the sons of Ham: Cush, Mizraim, Put and Canaan.

³ with twelve hundred chariots, and sixty thousand horses. And there was no number of the multitude that came with him from Egypt: Libyans, the Sukkiim, and the Ethiopians.

³ And he took counsel with his elders and his mighty men to stop the wells of water which were outside the city; and they helped him. ⁴ And he collected many people, and stopped the wells of water, and the river that flowed through the city, saying, Lest the king of Assyria come, and find much water, and strengthen himself.

¹¹ Does not Hezekiah deceive you, to deliver you to death and famine and thirst, saying, The Lord our God will deliver us out of the hand of the king of Assyria?

²³ And You multiplied their children as the stars of heaven, and brought them into the land of which You spoke to their fathers;

³¹ You had thoroughly plunged me in filth, and my garment has abhorred me.

²³ He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.

⁸ They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

¹⁹ And You have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

²² He laughs to scorn a king as he meets him, and will by no means turn back from the sword. ²³ The bow and sword resound against him, and his rage will swallow up the ground; ²⁴ and he will not believe until the trumpet sounds. ²⁵ And when the trumpet sounds, he says, Aha! And afar off, he smells the war with prancing and neighing.

¹⁶ A king is not saved by reason of a great host; and a giant shall not be delivered by the greatness of his strength. ¹⁷ A horse is vain for safety; neither shall he be delivered by the greatness of his power.

⁵ My wounds have become foul and corrupt, because of my foolishness. ⁶ I have been wretched and bowed down continually; I went with a mourning countenance all the day. ⁷ For my soul is filled with mockings; and there is no health in my flesh.

⁸ For there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, full of unmingled wine; and He has turned it from side to side, but its dregs have not been wholly poured out; all the sinners of the earth shall drink them.

⁵ All the simple ones in heart were troubled; all the men of wealth have slept their sleep, and have found nothing in their hands. ⁶ At Your rebuke, O God of Jacob, the riders on horses slumbered.

¹⁶ For He broke to pieces the bronze gates, and crushed the iron bars.

⁸ Wretched daughter of Babylon! Blessed shall he be who shall reward you as you have rewarded us.

¹³ For He has strengthened the bars of your gates; He has blessed your children within you.

¹⁰ Now therefore enter into the rocks, and hide yourselves in the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of His might, when He shall arise to strike mightily the earth.

¹⁹ having carried them into the caves, and into the clefts of the rocks, and into the caverns of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and by reason of the glory of His might, when He shall arise to strike mightily the earth.

⁹ Know, you Gentiles, and be conquered; listen, even to the extremity of the earth; be conquered, after you strengthened yourselves; for even if you should again strengthen yourselves, you shall again be conquered.

⁵ For they shall compensate for every garment that has been acquired by deceit, and all garments with restitution; and they shall be willing, even if they were burned with fire.

⁶ I will send My wrath against a sinful nation, and I will command My people to take plunder and spoil, and to trample the cities, and to make dust out of them. ⁷ But he does not mean so, neither did he devise thus in his heart; but his mind shall change, and that to destroy nations not a few. ⁸ And if they should say to him, You alone are ruler; ⁹ then shall he say, Have I not taken the country above Babylon and Chalanes, where the tower was built? And have I not taken Arabia, and Damascus, and Samaria? ¹⁰ As I have taken them, I will also take all the kingdoms; howl, you idols in Jerusalem, and in Samaria. ¹¹ For as I did to Samaria and her idols, so will I also do to Jerusalem and her idols. ¹² And it shall come to pass, when the Lord has finished doing all things on Mount Zion and Jerusalem, that I will visit upon the proud heart, even upon the ruler of the Assyrians, and upon the boastful haughtiness of his eyes. ¹³ For he said, I will act in strength, and in the wisdom of my understanding I will remove the boundaries of nations, and will spoil their strength. ¹⁴ And I will shake the inhabited cities; and I will take with My hand all the world as a nest; and I will even take them as eggs that have been left; and there is none that shall escape Me, or contradict Me.

⁶ Howl, for the day of the Lord is near, and destruction from God shall arrive.

¹⁴ And they that are left shall be as a fleeing fawn, and as a stray sheep, and there shall be none to gather them; so that a man shall turn back to his people, and a man shall flee to his own land.

¹⁶ And they shall dash their children before their eyes; and they shall spoil their houses, and shall take their wives.

⁸ the trees of Lebanon also rejoice against you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying, From the time that you have been laid low, no one has come up to cut us down. ⁹ Hell from beneath is provoked to meet you; all the great ones that have ruled over the earth have risen up together against you, they that have raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. ¹⁰ All shall answer and say to you, You also have been taken, even as we; and you are numbered amongst us. ¹¹ Your glory has come down to Hades, and your great mirth; under you they shall spread corruption, and the worm shall be your covering. ¹² How has Lucifer, that rose of the morning, fallen from heaven! He that sent orders to all the nations is crushed to the earth. ¹³ But you have said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will set my throne above the stars of heaven; I will sit on a lofty mount, on the lofty mountains toward the north; ¹⁴ I will go up above the clouds; I will be like the Most High. ¹⁵ But now you shall go down to hell, even to the foundations of the earth! ¹⁶ They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake;

¹⁶ They that see you shall marvel at you, and say, This is the man that troubled the earth, that made kings to shake; ¹⁷ that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity.

¹⁷ that made the whole world desolate, and destroyed its cities; he loosed not those who were in captivity. ¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in honor, every man in his house.

¹⁸ All the kings of the nations lie in honor, every man in his house. ¹⁹ But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathsome carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave.

¹⁹ But you shall be cast forth on the mountains, as a loathsome carcass, with many dead who have been pierced with swords, going down to the grave. ²⁰ As a garment defiled with blood shall not be pure, so neither shall you be pure; because you have destroyed My land, and have slain My people; you shall not endure forever; you are an evil seed. ²¹ Prepare your children to be slain for the sins of their father; that they arise not, and inherit the earth, nor fill the earth with wars.

¹⁴ Toward evening, and there shall be grief; before the morning, and he shall not be. This is the portion of them that spoiled you, and the inheritance to them that robbed you of your inheritance.

⁵ And the Egyptians shall drink the water that is by the sea, but the river shall fail, and be dried up. ⁶ And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus. ⁷ And all the green herbs round about the river, and everything sown by the side of the river, shall be blasted with the wind and dried up. ⁸ And the fishermen shall groan, and all that cast a hook into the river shall groan; they also that cast nets, and the anglers shall mourn. ⁹ And shame shall come upon them that work fine flax, and them that make fine linen. ¹⁰ And they that work at them shall be in pain, and all that make beer shall be grieved, and be pained in their souls.

¹⁶ But in that day the Egyptians shall be as women, in fear and in trembling because of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which He shall bring upon them.

⁴ for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed. ⁵ And the Egyptians, being defeated, shall be ashamed of the Ethiopians, in whom they had trusted; for they were their glory.

⁹ And they shall uncover the secret places of the houses of the citadel of David; and they saw that they were many, and that one had turned the water of the old pool into the city; ¹⁰ and that they had pulled down the houses of Jerusalem, to fortify the wall of the city. ¹¹ And you procured to yourselves water between the two walls within the ancient pool; but you looked not to Him that made it from the beginning, and regarded not Him that created it.

¹⁵ And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be left seventy years, as the time of a king, as the time of a man; and it shall come to pass after seventy years, that Tyre shall be as the song of a harlot. ¹⁶ Take a harp, go about, O city, you harlot that have been forgotten; play well on the harp, sing many songs, that you may be remembered. ¹⁷ And it shall come to pass after the seventy years, that God will visit Tyre, and she shall be again restored to her primitive state, and she shall be a mart for all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.

⁹ They are ashamed, they have not drunk wine; strong drink has become bitter to them that drink it.

⁴ And the fading flower of the glorious hope on the top of the high mountain shall be as the early fig; he that sees it, before he takes it into his hand, will desire to swallow it down.

⁹ Faint, and be amazed, and be overpowered, not with strong drink, nor with wine.

³ And their slain shall be cast forth, and their corpses; and their stench shall come up, and the mountains shall be made wet with their blood.

¹⁸ For truly, Lord, the kings of the Assyrians have laid waste the whole world, and the countries thereof,

²⁵ and I have made a bridge, and dried up the waters, and every pool of water.

³⁶ And the angel of the Lord went forth, and killed out of the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and they arose in the morning and found all these bodies dead.

²⁴ For what did He give Jacob up to spoil, and Israel to them that plundered him? Did not God do it against whom they sinned? And they would not walk in His ways, nor hearken to His law.

¹ Thus says the Lord God to My anointed Cyrus, whose right hand I have held, that nations might be obedient before him; and I will break through the strength of kings; I will open doors before him, and cities shall not be closed. ² I will go before you, and will level mountains; I will break to pieces the bronze doors, and burst the iron bars.

¹ Come down, sit on the ground, O virgin daughter of Babylon; sit on the ground, O daughter of the Chaldeans; for you shall no more be called tender and luxurious. ² Take a millstone, grind meal; remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers. ³ Your shame shall be uncovered, your reproaches shall be brought to light; I will exact of you due vengeance, I will no longer deliver you to men.

⁹ But now these two things shall come upon you suddenly in one day, the loss of children and widowhood shall come suddenly upon you, for your sorcery, for the strength of your enchantments,

¹² Stand now with your enchantments, and with the abundance of your sorcery, which you have learned from your youth; if you can be profited. ¹³ You are wearied in your counsels. Let now the astrologers of the heaven stand and deliver you, let them that see the stars tell you what is about to come upon you.

²⁶ And they that afflicted you shall eat their own flesh; and they shall drink their own blood as new wine, and shall be drunk; and all flesh shall perceive that I am the Lord that delivers you, and that upholds the strength of Jacob.

¹⁹ Wherefore these things are against you; who shall sympathize with you in your grief? Downfall and destruction, famine and sword; who shall comfort you?

⁹ All you beasts of the field, come, devour, all you beasts of the forest. ¹⁰ See how they are all blinded; they have not known; they are dumb dogs that will not bark; dreaming of rest, loving to slumber.

⁶ And I trampled them in My anger, and brought down their blood to the earth.

⁵ Declare in Judah, and let it be heard in Jerusalem. Say, Sound the trumpet in the land; cry aloud: say, Gather yourselves together, and let us enter into the fortified cities.

¹⁴ Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the strong cities, and let us be cast out there: for God has cast us out, and made us drink water of gall, because we have sinned before Him.

²² Behold, there comes a sound of a noise, and a great earthquake from the land of the north, to make the cities of Judah a desolation, and a resting place for ostriches.

²² And if you should say in your heart, Why have these things happened to me? Because of the abundance of your iniquity have your skirts been discovered, that your heels might be exposed.

²⁶ I also will expose your skirts upon your face, and your shame shall be seen;

⁵ Who will spare you, O Jerusalem? And who will fear for you? Or who will turn back to ask about your welfare?

¹⁵ Thus said the Lord God of Israel: Take the cup of this unmixed wine from My hand, and you shall cause all the nations to drink, to whom I send you. ¹⁶ And they shall drink, and vomit, and be mad, because of the sword which I send among them. ¹⁷ So I took the cup out of the Lord's hand, and caused the nations to whom the Lord sent me to drink: ¹⁸ Jerusalem, and the cities of Judah, and the kings of Judah, and his princes, to make them a desert place, a desolation, and a hissing. ¹⁹ And Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, and his nobles, and all his people; ²⁰ and all the mixed multitude, and all the kings of the Philistines, namely Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Azotus, ²¹ and Edom, and the land of Moab, and the children of Ammon, ²² and the kings of Tyre, and the kings of Sidon, and the kings in the country beyond the sea, ²³ and Dedan, Tema, Buz, and everyone that is shaved round about the face, ²⁴ and all the mixed multitude dwelling in the wilderness, ²⁵ and all the kings of Aelam, and all the kings of the Persians, ²⁶ and all the kings from the north, the far and the near, each one with his brother, and all the kingdoms which are on the face of the earth. ²⁷ And you shall say to them, Thus said the Lord Almighty: Drink, and be drunk; and you shall vomit and fall, and shall by no means rise, because of the sword which I send among you.

¹³ There is none to judge your cause; you have been painfully treated for healing, there is no help for you. ¹⁴ All your friends have forgotten you; they shall not ask about you at all, for I have smitten you with the stroke of the enemy, even severe correction. Your sins have abounded above all your iniquity. ¹⁵ Your sins have abounded beyond the multitude of your iniquities, therefore they have done these things to you.

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³ Take up arms and spears, and draw close to battle; ⁴ and harness the horses. Mount, you horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.

⁹ Mount the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, you warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, you Libyans, bend the bow.

¹¹ Go up to Gilead, and take balm for the virgin daughter of Egypt. In vain have you multiplied your medicines; there is no help for you.

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³ at the sound of his rushing, at the sound of his hoofs, and at the rattling of his chariots, at the noise of his wheels. The fathers turned not to their children because of the weakness of their hands,

¹⁸ Therefore thus says the Lord: Behold, I will take vengeance on the king of Babylon, and upon his land, as I took vengeance on the king of Assyria.

³⁷ A sword upon their warriors and upon the mixed people in the midst of her; and they shall be as women. A sword upon the treasures, and they shall be scattered upon her water,

⁹ We tried to heal Babylon, but she was not healed. Let us forsake her, and depart everyone to his own country; for her judgment has reached to the heaven, it has mounted up to the stars.

²⁷ Set up a standard in the land, sound the trumpet among the nations, consecrate the nations against her, raise up kings against her by Me, and for the people of Ashkenaz; set against her engines of war; bring up against her horses as a multitude of locusts.

³⁰ The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege. Their power is broken; they have become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.

³⁷ And Babylon shall be a desolation, and shall not be inhabited.

³⁹ In their excitement I will give them a drink, and make them drunk, that they may be stupefied, and sleep an everlasting sleep, and not awake, says the Lord.

⁴¹ How has the boast of all the earth been taken and caught in a snare! How has Babylon become a desolation among the nations! ⁴² The sea has come up upon Babylon with the sound of its waves, and she is covered. ⁴³ Her cities have become like a dry and trackless land; not so much as one soul shall dwell in it, neither shall a son of man lodge in it.

⁵⁷ The Lord recompenses, and will make her leaders and her wise men and her captains completely drunk, says the King, the Lord Almighty is His name.

¹³ ( { ξ}) MEM. What shall I testify to you, or what shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? Who shall save and comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For the cup of your destruction is enlarged — who shall heal you?

¹⁵ ( { ρ}) SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?

¹⁹ ( { χ}) KOPH. Arise, rejoice in the night at the beginning of your watch: pour out your heart as water before the face of the Lord, lift up your hands to Him for the life of your infants, who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets.

¹⁶ And He has dashed out my teeth with gravel, He has fed me with ashes.

¹ ( { ΰ}) ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! The sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.

²⁵ and on the head of every road you set up your fornications, and defiled your beauty, and opened your feet to every passer by, and multiplied your fornication. ²⁶ And you went a-whoring after the children of Egypt your neighbors, great of flesh; and went a-whoring, often to provoke Me to anger. ²⁷ And if I stretch out My hand against you, then will I abolish your statutes, and deliver you up to the will of those that hate you, even to the daughters of the Philistines that turned you aside from the way in which you sinned. ²⁸ And you went a-whoring to the daughters of Assyria, and not even then were you satisfied; yea, you went a-whoring, and were not satisfied. ²⁹ And you multiplied your covenants with the land of the Chaldeans; and not even with these were you satisfied.

³⁷ Therefore, behold, I will gather all your lovers with whom you have consorted, and all whom you have loved, with all whom you hated; and I will gather them against you round about, and will expose your wickedness to them, and they shall see all your shame.

² And you, son of man, will you judge the bloody city? Yea, declare to her all her iniquities. ³ And you shall say, Thus says the Lord God: O city that sheds blood in the midst of her, so that her time should come, and that forms devices against herself, to defile herself;

²⁵ And I will bring upon you My jealousy, and they shall deal with you in great wrath. They shall take away your nose and your ears, and shall cast down your remnant with the sword. They shall take your sons and your daughters, and fire shall devour your remnant.

²⁹ And they shall deal with you in hatred, and shall take all the fruits of your labors and your toils, and you shall be naked and bare; and the shame of your fornication shall be exposed. And your ungodliness and your fornication

⁶ Therefore thus says the Lord: O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it. ⁷ For her blood is in the midst of her; I have set it upon a smooth rock; I have not poured it out upon the earth, so that the earth should cover it; ⁸ that My wrath should come up for complete vengeance to be taken; I set her blood upon a smooth rock, so as not to cover it. ⁹ Therefore thus says the Lord: I will also make the firebrand great,

⁶ For thus says the Lord: Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with your foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel;

¹⁰ Persians and Lydians and Libyans were in your army. Your warriors hung in you shields and helmets; these gave you your glory.

⁵ Persians, Cretans, Lydians, Libyans and all the mixed multitude, and they of the children of My covenant, shall fall by the sword therein.

¹⁴ And I will destroy the land of Pathros, and will send fire upon Tanis, and will execute vengeance on Noph. ¹⁵ And I will pour out My wrath upon Sin, the strength of Egypt, and I will destroy the multitude of Memphis. ¹⁶ And I will send fire upon Egypt; and Syene shall be greatly troubled; and there shall be a breaking in Noph, and waters shall be poured out.

²¹ Son of man, I have broken the arms of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and behold, it has not been bound up to be healed, to have a plaster put upon it, or to be strengthened to lay hold of the sword. ²² Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and I will break his strong and outstretched arms, and I will strike down his sword from out of his hand.

² Son of man, say to Pharaoh king of Egypt, and to his multitude: To whom have you compared yourself in your haughtiness? ³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Lebanon, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature; his top reached to the midst of the clouds.

³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Lebanon, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature; his top reached to the midst of the clouds.

³ Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Lebanon, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature; his top reached to the midst of the clouds. ⁴ The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field.

⁴ The water nourished him, the depth made him grow tall; she led her rivers round about his plants, and she sent forth her streams to all the trees of the field. ⁵ Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water.

⁵ Therefore was his stature exalted above all the trees of the field, and his branches spread far by the help of much water. ⁶ All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow.

⁶ All the birds of the sky made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches all the wild beasts of the field bred; the whole multitude of nations dwelt under his shadow. ⁷ And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches, for his roots were amidst much water.

⁷ And he was fair in his height by reason of the multitude of his branches, for his roots were amidst much water. ⁸ And such cypresses as these were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches; no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,

⁸ And such cypresses as these were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches; no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty, ⁹ because of the multitude of his branches. And the trees of God's Paradise of Delight envied him.

⁹ because of the multitude of his branches. And the trees of God's Paradise of Delight envied him. ¹⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have grown great, and have set your top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted;

¹⁰ Therefore thus says the Lord: Because you have grown great, and have set your top in the midst of the clouds, and I saw when he was exalted; ¹¹ therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction.

¹¹ therefore I delivered him into the hands of the prince of the nations, and he wrought his destruction. ¹² And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains. His branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations have gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low.

¹² And ravaging strangers from the nations have destroyed him, and have cast him down upon the mountains. His branches fell in all the valleys, and his boughs were broken in every field of the land; and all the people of the nations have gone down from their shelter, and have laid him low. ¹³ All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs,

¹³ All the birds of the sky have settled on his fallen trunk, and all the wild beasts of the field came upon his boughs, ¹⁴ in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size; whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit. ¹⁵ Thus says the Lord God: In the day in which he went down to Hades, the deep mourned for him; and I kept back her floods, and restrained her abundance of water; and Lebanon mourned for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him. ¹⁶ At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit. And all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice plants of Lebanon, all that drink water. ¹⁷ For they went down to hell with him among the slain with the sword; and his seed, even those that dwelt under his shadow, perished in the midst of their life. ¹⁸ To whom are you compared? Descend, and be debased with the trees of paradise to the depth of the earth. You shall lie in the midst of the uncircumcised with those that are slain by the sword. Thus shall Pharaoh be, and the multitude of his army, says the Lord God.

²² There are Assyria and all his company; all his slain have been laid there, ²³ and their graves are in the depth of the pit, and his company is set around about his tomb. All the slain that fell by the sword, who had caused the fear of them to be upon the land of the living.

⁵ Persians, Ethiopians, and Libyans; all with helmets and shields.

⁴ and you and all that belong to you shall fall, and the nations that are with you shall be given to multitudes of birds, even to every fowl, and I have given you to all the wild beasts of the field to be devoured.

² Cursing, and lying, and murder, and theft, and adultery bound in the land, and they mingle blood with blood.

⁸ And the altars of On, the sins of Israel shall be taken away. Thorns and thistles shall come up on their altars; and they shall say to the mountains, Cover us; and to the hills, Fall on us.

¹⁶ Samaria shall be utterly destroyed, for she has resisted her God; they shall fall by the sword, and their sucklings shall be dashed against the ground, and their women and children ripped up.

⁴ The leavings of the caterpillar has the locust eaten, and the leavings of the locust has the palmerworm eaten, and the leavings of the palmerworm has the cankerworm eaten.

²⁵ And I will recompense you for the years which the locust, and the caterpillar, and the palmerworm, and the cankerworm have eaten, even My great army, which I sent against you.

³ and cast lots over My people, and have given their boys to harlots, and sold their girls for wine, and have drunk.

⁹ Proclaim these things among the Gentiles; declare war, arouse the warriors, draw near and go up, all you men of war. ¹⁰ Beat your plowshares into swords, and your sickles into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. ¹¹ Gather yourselves together, and go in, all you nations round about, and gather yourselves there; let the timid become a warrior.

¹³ Thus says the Lord; For three sins of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not turn away from him, because they ripped up the women with child of the Gileadites, that they might widen their coasts.

² O house of Israel, pass by all of you, and see; and pass by from there to Hamath; and from there descend to Gath of the Philistines, the chief of all these kingdoms, see if their coasts are greater than your coasts.

³ If they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, from there will I search them out and take them; and if they should go down from My presence into the depths of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them.

¹¹ From the day that you stood in opposition to him, in the days when foreigners were taking captive his forces, and strangers entered into his gates, and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were as one of them.

⁹ For her plague has become grievous; for it has come even to Judah; and has reached to the gate of My people, even to Jerusalem.

¹¹ The inhabitant of Shaphir, fairly inhabiting her cities, did not come forth to mourn for the house next to her: she shall receive of you the stroke of grief.

¹⁷ They shall lick the dust as serpents crawling on the earth, they shall be confounded in their holes; they shall be amazed at the Lord our God, and will be afraid of you.

¹ The burden of Nineveh: the book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

¹⁰ For the enemy shall be laid bare even to the foundation, and shall be devoured as twisted yew, and as stubble fully dry.

¹⁴ And the Lord shall give a command concerning you; your name shall be fruitful no longer: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of your god, and the molten images: I will make your grave; for they are swift.

¹ It is all over with him, he has been removed, one who has been delivered from affliction has come up panting into your presence, watch the way, strengthen your loins, be very valiant in your strength.

³ They have destroyed the arms of their power from among men, their mighty men sporting with fire: the reins of their chariots shall be destroyed in the day of his preparation, and the horsemen shall be thrown into confusion ⁴ in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightning.

⁴ in the ways, and the chariots shall clash together, and shall be entangled in each other in the broad ways: their appearance is as lamps of fire, and as gleaming lightning. ⁵ And their mighty men shall bethink themselves and flee by day; and they shall be weak as they go; and they shall hasten to her walls, and shall prepare their defenses. ⁶ The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,

⁶ The gates of the cities have been opened, and the palaces have fallen into ruin,

⁹ They plundered the silver, they plundered the gold, and there was no end of their adorning; they were loaded with it upon all their pleasant vessels. ¹⁰ There is thrusting forth, and shaking, and tumult, and heart breaking, and loosing of knees, and pangs on all loins; and the faces of all are as the blackening of a pot. ¹¹ Where is the dwelling place of the lions, and the feeding place of the young lions? Where did the lion go, that the lion's cub should enter in there, and there was none to scare him away? ¹² The lion seized enough prey for his cubs, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling place with spoil.

¹² The lion seized enough prey for his cubs, and strangled for his young lions, and filled his lair with prey, and his dwelling place with spoil. ¹³ Behold, I am against you, says the Lord Almighty, and I will burn up your multitude in the smoke, and the sword shall devour your lions; and I will utterly destroy your prey from off the land, and your deeds shall be heard of no more.

¹³ Behold, your people within you are as women: the gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.

¹⁰ And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every stronghold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.

¹² Woe to him that builds a city with blood, and establishes a city by unrighteousness.

¹⁶ Drink also your fill of disgrace instead of glory: shake, O heart, and quake, the cup of the right hand of the Lord has come round upon you, and dishonor has gathered upon your glory.

¹¹ The sun was exalted, and the moon stood still in her course: Your darts shall go forth at the light, at the brightness of the gleaming of Your spear.

¹³ And He shall stretch forth His hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineveh a dry wilderness, even as a desert.

¹³ And He shall stretch forth His hand against the north and destroy the Assyrian, and make Nineveh a dry wilderness, even as a desert. ¹⁴ And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was as a cedar. ^{15 (3:1)} This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how has she become desolate, and a habitation of wild beasts! Everyone that passes through her shall hiss, and shake their hands in contempt.

^{15 (3:1)} This is the scornful city that dwells securely, that says in her heart, I am, and there is no longer any to be after me: how has she become desolate, and a habitation of wild beasts! Everyone that passes through her shall hiss, and shake their hands in contempt.

^{1 (3:1A)} Alas the glorious and ransomed city. ² The dove hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord, and she drew not near to her God. ³ Her princes within her were as roaring lions, her judges as the wolves of Arabia; they remained not till the morning.

² If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to My name, says the Lord Almighty, then I will send forth the curse upon you, and I will bring a curse upon your blessing: yes, I will curse it, and I will scatter your blessing, and it shall not exist among you, because you take this not to heart.

⁹ And I have made you despised and cast out among all the people, because you have not kept My ways, but have been partial in the law.

³⁰ Then they will begin 'to say to the mountains, "Fall on us!" and to the hills, "Cover us!" '

⁹ For I think that God has displayed us, the apostles, last, as men appointed to death; for we became a spectacle to the world, both to angels and to men.

¹³ being defamed, we encourage; we have become as the sweepings of the world, the offscouring of all things until now.

³³ in part being exposed publicly, both to reproaches and to afflictions, and in part having become partners of those treated in this way.

⁷ as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to fornication and having gone after other flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

¹³ And the stars of heaven fell to the earth, like a fig tree casting its untimely figs, being shaken by a mighty wind.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the magnates and the high-ranking military men, and the rich and the mighty, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the crags of the mountains.

¹⁵ And the kings of the earth, and the magnates and the high-ranking military men, and the rich and the mighty, and every slave and every free man, hid themselves in the caves and in the crags of the mountains. ¹⁶ And they said to the mountains and crags, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb! ¹⁷ For the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand?"

⁷ And the appearances of the locusts was similar to horses having been prepared for battle, and on their heads were like crowns of gold, and their faces were like the faces of men.

⁷ And it was granted to him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. And authority was given him over every tribe, people, language, and nation.

¹ Then one of the seven angels having the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who sits on many waters, ² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and those dwelling on the earth became drunk from the wine of her fornication."

² with whom the kings of the earth committed fornication, and those dwelling on the earth became drunk from the wine of her fornication." ³ And he led me away in the Spirit, into a deserted place. And I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast being filled with names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. ⁴ And the woman was clothed in purple and scarlet, gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup being filled with abominations and the filthiness of the fornication of the earth. ⁵ And on her forehead a name was written: MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

² And he cried out with a strong voice, saying, "Babylon the great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons, a prison for every unclean spirit, and a cage for every unclean and detestable bird! ³ For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth have become rich through the wealth of her luxury."

⁹ "The kings of the earth who committed fornication and lived luxuriously with her shall weep and mourn over her, when they see the smoke of her burning, ¹⁰ standing from afar on account of the fear of her torment, saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! Because in one hour your judgment came.'

¹⁶ and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, she who was clothed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and having been gilded with gold and precious stones and pearls! ¹⁷ Because in one hour such great wealth was laid waste.' And every captain, and all those sailing along the coast, and sailors, and as many as work on the sea, stood from afar ¹⁸ and were crying out, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, 'Who is like this great city?' ¹⁹ "And they threw dust on their heads and were crying out, weeping and sorrowing, and saying, 'Alas, alas, that great city, by which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! Because in one hour she was laid waste.' ²⁰ "Rejoice over her, O heaven, and you saints and apostles and prophets, because God has pronounced judgment for you against her!"

²³ And the light of a lamp shall by no means shine in you anymore, and the voice of bridegroom and of a bride shall by no means be heard in you anymore. Your merchants were the magnates of the earth, for by your sorcery all the nations were deceived.