Nahum 33NahumThe fall of NinevehThe Orthodox Jewish Bible Tanakh and Orthodox Jewish Brit Chadasha The Holy Bible

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1. Judgment on Nineveh

2. 1ENGOJBHoy (woe) to the ir damim (bloody city)! It is all full of lies and booty; no end to the plunder;BSBBSB: Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
3. 2ENGOJBThe crack of the shot (whip), and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the prancing susim, and of the jolting merkavah (chariot);BSBBSB: The crack of the whip, the rumble of the wheel, galloping horse and bounding chariot!
4. 3ENGOJBThe parash (horsemen, cavalry) charging, the flash of the cherev and the glittering spear; and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of dead bodies; and there is no end of their geviyot (corpses); they stumble over their geviyot;BSBBSB: Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
5. 4ENGOJBBecause of the multitude of the harlotries of the alluring zonah, the ba'alat keshafim (the mistress of sorceries), that enslaveth Goyim through her prostitutions, and mishpochot through her keshafim;BSBBSB: because of the many harlotries of the harlot, the seductive mistress of sorcery, who betrays nations by her prostitution and clans by her witchcraft.
6. 5ENGOJBHineni, I am against thee, saith Hashem Tzva'os; and I will lift thy skirts over thy faces, and I will show the Goyim thy nakedness, and the mamlachot thy shame.BSBBSB: “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.
7. 6ENGOJBAnd I (Hashem) will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee contemptibly vile, and will make thee a spectacle.BSBBSB: I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.
8. 7ENGOJBAnd it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say: Nineveh is in ruins; who will bemoan her? From where shall I seek menachamim (comforters) for thee?BSBBSB: Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”
9. 8ENGOJBArt thou better than No Amon (Thebes), that was situated on the Nile, that had the mayim round about it, whose rampart was the yam, and her waters were her chomah?BSBBSB: Are you better than Thebes, stationed by the Nile with water around her, whose rampart was the sea, whose wall was the water?
10. 9ENGOJBEthiopia and Mitzrayim were her strength, and it was boundless; Put and Luvim (Libya) were her allies.BSBBSB: Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength; Put and Libya were her allies.
11. 10ENGOJBYet she went into golus, she went into captivity; her olalim also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets; and they cast goral (lots) for her honorable men, and all her gedolim were bound in chains.BSBBSB: Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity. Her infants were dashed to pieces at the head of every street. They cast lots for her dignitaries, and all her nobles were bound in chains.
12. 11ENGOJBThou also shalt be drunken, thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek maoz from the enemy.BSBBSB: You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.
13. 12ENGOJBAll thy strongholds shall be like te'enim (fig trees) with the first ripe figs; if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the peh (mouth) of the ochel (eater).BSBBSB: All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater!
14. 13ENGOJBHinei, thy troops in the midst of thee are nashim (women); the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies; the eish shall devour thy (gate) bars.BSBBSB: Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
15. 14ENGOJBDraw thee water for the matzor (siege), fortify thy strongholds, go unto clay, and tread the mortar, repair the brickwork.BSBBSB: Draw your water for the siege; strengthen your fortresses. Work the clay and tread the mortar; repair the brick kiln!
16. 15ENGOJBThere shall the eish devour thee, the cherev shall consume thee, it shall eat thee up like the grasshopper. Make thyself many as the grasshopper, make thyself many as the arbeh (locust).BSBBSB: There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
17. 16ENGOJBThou hast multiplied thy merchants more than the kokhavim of HaShomayim; but, like the locust, they strip the land, then fly away.BSBBSB: You have multiplied your merchants more than the stars of the sky. The young locust strips the land and flies away.
18. 17ENGOJBThy commanders are as the swarming locusts, and thy officials as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges on a cold day, but when the shemesh ariseth they flee away, and their place is whereabouts unknown.BSBBSB: Your guards are like the swarming locust, and your scribes like clouds of locusts that settle on the walls on a cold day. When the sun rises, they fly away, and no one knows where.
19. 18ENGOJBThy ro'im (shepherds) slumber, O melech of Ashur (Assyria); thy nobles sleep; thy people are scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.BSBBSB: O king of Assyria, your shepherds slumber; your officers sleep. Your people are scattered on the mountains with no one to gather them.
20. 19ENGOJBThere is no healing of thy shever (fracture, injury); thy wound is grievous; all that hear the news of thee shall clap their hands over thy fall; for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed tamid (continually)?BSBBSB: There is no healing for your injury; your wound is severe. All who hear the news of you applaud your downfall, for who has not experienced your constant cruelty?