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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 God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire 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 shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it. (Isa. 24:9)
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Ezek. 22:2‑3• 2Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt show her all her abominations.
 3Then say thou, Thus saith the Lord God, The city sheddeth blood in the midst of it, 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• 6Wherefore 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.
 7For her blood is in the midst of her; she set it upon the top of a rock; she poured it not upon the ground, to cover it with dust;
 8That it might cause fury to come up to take vengeance; I have set her blood upon the top of a rock, that it should not be covered.
 9Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. (Ezek. 24:6‑9)
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Hab. 2:12• 12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity! (Hab. 2:12)
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Zeph. 3:1‑3• 1Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!
 2She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God.
 3Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. (Zeph. 3:1‑3)
bloody city.
Heb. city of bloods.
full.
Nah. 2:12• 12The 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. (Nah. 2:12)
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Isa. 17:14• 14And 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. (Isa. 17:14)
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Isa. 42:24• 24Who 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. (Isa. 42:24)
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Hos. 4:2• 2By swearing, 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.