Nahum 3:1
New International Version
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without victims!

New Living Translation
What sorrow awaits Nineveh, the city of murder and lies! She is crammed with wealth and is never without victims.

English Standard Version
Woe to the bloody city, all full of lies and plunder— no end to the prey!

Berean Standard Bible
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

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

New King James Version
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. Its victim never departs.

New American Standard Bible
Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey does not leave.

NASB 1995
Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs.

NASB 1977
Woe to the bloody city, completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs.

Legacy Standard Bible
Woe to the city of bloodshed, completely full of deception and pillage; Her prey never departs.

Amplified Bible
Woe (judgment is coming) to the city of blood [guilty of murder and mayhem], completely full of lies and pillage; Her prey never departs [alive].

Christian Standard Bible
Woe to the city of blood, totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Woe to the city of blood, totally deceitful, full of plunder, never without prey.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Woe to the city of blood, for all of it is falsehood and it is full of evil, and the ruin in it is not searched out!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
O city of blood, wholly false, full of unrighteousness; the prey shall not be handled.

Contemporary English Version
Doom to the crime capital! Nineveh, city of murder and treachery,

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
How horrible it will be for that city of bloody violence! It is completely full of lies and stolen goods-never without victims.

Good News Translation
Doomed is the lying, murderous city, full of wealth to be looted and plundered!

International Standard Version
Woe to this city, contaminated with shed blood, all full of lies and robberies— it is never without victims!

JPS Tanakh 1917
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and rapine; The prey departeth not.

Literal Standard Version
Woe [to] the city of blood, | She is all full with lies [and] burglary, | Prey does not depart.

Majority Standard Bible
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.

New American Bible
Ah! The bloody city, all lies, Full of plunder, whose looting never stops!

NET Bible
Woe to the city guilty of bloodshed! She is full of lies; she is filled with plunder; she has hoarded her spoil!

New Revised Standard Version
Ah! City of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of booty— no end to the plunder!

New Heart English Bible
Woe to the bloody city. It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn't depart.

Webster's Bible Translation
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robberies; the prey departeth not;

World English Bible
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey.

Young's Literal Translation
Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies -- burglary -- full, Prey doth not depart.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Judgment Against Nineveh
1Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey. 2The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!…

Cross References
Psalm 62:10
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Ezekiel 24:6
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.

Ezekiel 24:9
Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.

Nahum 2:13
"Behold, I am against you," declares the LORD of Hosts. "I will send your chariots up in smoke, and the sword will devour your young lions. I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voices of your messengers will no longer be heard."

Habakkuk 2:12
Woe to him who builds a city with bloodshed and establishes a town by iniquity!


Treasury of Scripture

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

to.

Isaiah 24:9
They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Ezekiel 22:2,3
Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations…

Ezekiel 24:6-9
Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it…

bloody city.

Nahum 2:12
The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Isaiah 17:14
And behold at eveningtide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Isaiah 42:24
Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.

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Nahum 3
1. The destruction of Nineveh.














(1) Woe to the bloody city!--Better, O bloody city! She is altogether deceit, filled with crime: she ceases not from plunder.

Verses 1-19. - Part III. THE CAUSE OF THE JUDGMENT - SINS OF THE CITY, WHICH BRING INEVITABLE PUNISHMENT. Verses 1-7. - § 1. The prophet specifies the crimes which have brought this ruin upon Nineveh. Verse 1. - The bloody city; literally, city of bloods, where Mood is shed without scruple (comp. Ezekiel 24:6, 9; Habakkuk 2:12). The cruelty of the Assyrians is attested by the monuments, in which we see or read how prisoners were impaled alive, flayed, beheaded, dragged to death with ropes passed through rings in their lips, blinded by the king's own hand, hung up by hands or feet to die in slow torture (see Bonomi, pp. 168, etc., 190, etc., 225). Others have their brains beaten out, or their tongues torn out by the roots, while the bleeding heads of the slain are tied round the necks of the living, who are reserved for further torture (Layard, 'Nineveh and Babylon,' p. 456; Rawlinson, 'Ancient Monarchies,' 2:503, etc., edit. 1864). The royal inscriptions recount with exultation the number of the enemies slain and of captives carried away, cities levelled with the ground, plundered, and burnt, lands devastated, fruit trees destroyed, etc. It is all full of lies; ὅλη ψευδής, "all lie" (Septuagint). The Assyrians used treachery in furthering their conquests, made promises which they never kept, to induce nations to submit to their yoke. Such, doubtless, were those of Rabshakeh (Isaiah 36:16). Rawlinson, "Falsehood and treachery... are often employed by the strong, as furnishing short cuts to success, and even, where the moral standard is low, as being in themselves creditable (see Thucyd., 3:83). It certainly was not necessity which made the Assyrians covenant breakers; it seems to have been in part the wantonness of power - because they 'despised the cities, and regarded no man' (Isaiah 33:8); perhaps it was in part also their imperfect moral perception, which may have failed to draw the proper distinction between craft and cleverness" ('Ancient Monarchies,' 1:305). Robbery; rather, rapine, or rending in pieces. The figure applies to the way in which a wild beast kills its prey by tearing it to pieces. So the three crimes of Nineveh here enumerated are bloodshed, deceit, and violence. In the uncertainty concerning the word (pereq). rendered "robbery," which only occurs m Obadiah 1:14, where it means "crossway," the LXX. translates, ἀδικίας πλήρης, "full of unrighteousness." The Vulgate is correct, dilaceratione plena. The prey departeth not. They go on in the same way, gathering spoil into the city, never ceasing from this crime. The monuments continually record the booty that was brought to Nineveh (see, for instance, the 'Annals of Assurbanipal,' passim; 'Records of the Past,' vol. 9; Schrader, 'Keilinschr.,' 195, etc., 216, 233, etc.; comp. Isaiah 33:1). Septuagint, Οὐ ψηλαφηθήσεται θήρα, which gives a sense contradictory to the text, "Prey shall not be handled."

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Woe
ה֖וֹי (hō·w)
Interjection
Strong's 1945: Ah! alas! ha!

to the city
עִ֣יר (‘îr)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5892: Excitement

of blood,
דָּמִ֑ים (dā·mîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1818: Blood, of man, an animal, the juice of the grape, bloodshed

full
כֻּלָּ֗הּ (kul·lāh)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 3605: The whole, all, any, every

of lies,
כַּ֤חַשׁ (ka·ḥaš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3585: A failure of flesh, emaciation, hypocrisy

full of
מְלֵאָ֔ה (mə·lê·’āh)
Adjective - feminine singular
Strong's 4395: Something fulfilled, abundance

plunder,
פֶּ֙רֶק֙ (pe·req)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6563: Parting of ways, plunder

never
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

without
יָמִ֖ישׁ (yā·mîš)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 4185: To depart, remove

prey.
טָֽרֶף׃ (ṭā·rep̄)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2964: Something torn, a fragment, a fresh leaf, prey, food


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