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Nahum 3

Nah. 3:1 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Woe
howy (Hebrew #1945)
oh!
KJV usage: ah, alas, ho, O, woe.
Pronounce: hoh'ee
Origin: a prolonged form of 1930 (akin to 188)
g to the χbloody
dam (Hebrew #1818)
blood (as that which when shed causes death) of man or an animal; by analogy, the juice of the grape; figuratively (especially in the plural) bloodshed (i.e. drops of blood)
KJV usage: blood(-y, -guiltiness, (-thirsty), + innocent.
Pronounce: dawm
Origin: from 1826 (compare 119)
city
`iyr (Hebrew #5892)
or ayar (Judges 10:4) {aw-yar'}; from 5782 a city (a place guarded by waking or a watch) in the widest sense (even of a mere encampment or post)
KJV usage: Ai (from margin), city, court (from margin), town.
Pronounce: eer
Origin: or (in the plural) par {awr}
! it is all full
male' (Hebrew #4392)
full (literally or figuratively) or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully
KJV usage: X she that was with child, fill(-ed, -ed with), full(-ly), multitude, as is worth.
Pronounce: maw-lay'
Origin: from 4390
of lies
kachash (Hebrew #3585)
literally, a failure of flesh, i.e. emaciation; figuratively, hypocrisy
KJV usage: leanness, lies, lying.
Pronounce: kakh'-ash
Origin: from 3584
and robbery
pereq (Hebrew #6563)
rapine; also a fork (in roads)
KJV usage: crossway, robbery.
Pronounce: peh'-rek
Origin: from 6561
; the prey
tereph (Hebrew #2964)
something torn, i.e. a fragment, e.g. a fresh leaf, prey, food
KJV usage: leaf, meat, prey, spoil.
Pronounce: teh'-ref
Origin: from 2963
departeth
muwsh (Hebrew #4185)
to withdraw (both literally and figuratively, whether intransitive or transitive)
KJV usage: cease, depart, go back, remove, take away.
Pronounce: moosh
Origin: a primitive root (perhaps rather the same as 4184 through the idea of receding by contact)
not;
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Ezek. 24:9• 9Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. (Ezek. 24:9)
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city of bloods.

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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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1-19:  The miserable ruin of Nineveh.
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Isa. 24:9• 9They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it. (Isa. 24:9)
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Ezek. 22:2‑3• 2And thou, son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? Yea, cause her to know all her abominations,
 3and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: A city that sheddeth blood in her midst, that her time may come, and maketh idols against herself to defile herself. (Ezek. 22:2‑3)
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Ezek. 24:6‑9• 6Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is therein, and whose rust is not gone out of it! Bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it:
 7for her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the bare rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust.
 8That it might cause fury to come up to execute vengeance, I have set her blood upon the bare rock, that it should not be covered.
 9Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Woe to the bloody city! I also will make the pile great. (Ezek. 24:6‑9)
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Hab. 2:12• 12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and establisheth a city by unrighteousness! (Hab. 2:12)
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Zeph. 3:1‑3• 1Woe to her that is rebellious and corrupted, to the oppressing city!
 2She hearkened not to the voice; she received not correction; she confided not in Jehovah; she drew not near her God.
 3Her princes in the midst of her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, that leave nothing for the morning. (Zeph. 3:1‑3)
bloody city.
Heb. city of bloods.
full.
Nah. 2:12• 12The lion tore in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin. (Nah. 2:12)
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Isa. 17:14• 14behold, at eventide, trouble; before the morning they are not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us. (Isa. 17:14)
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Isa. 42:24• 24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not Jehovah, he against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, neither did they hearken unto his law. (Isa. 42:24)
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Hos. 4:2• 2Swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery,--they break out; and blood toucheth blood. (Hos. 4:2)
• “Lies and violence”  the usual twofold form of iniquity. (“Nahum 3” by W. Kelly)
• “The prey departeth not.” The allusion is no doubt to the people carried off and not restored. (“Nahum 3” by W. Kelly)
• {Ch. 3} Nahum justifies God in the well-deserved judgment of this godless empire. (“The Prophecies of Nahum” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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