Nahum 3:1

Nahum chapter 3 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.

Context

v.1This passage

v.2The noise of the whip, and the noise of the rattling of wheels, and prancing horses, and bounding chariots,

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Isaiah 17:14

    At eventide, behold, terror; and before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that despoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • Ezekiel 22:2

    And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? then cause her to know all her abominations.

  • Nahum 2:12

    The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

  • Habakkuk 2:12

    Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by iniquity!

  • Ezekiel 24:6

    Wherefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the caldron whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! take out of it piece after piece; No lot is fallen upon it.

  • Isaiah 24:9

    They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.