Reformation Directory

1 Of the fall of Ninevéh. 8 No power can escape the hand of God.

1.O bloody city, it is all full of lies, and robbery: ^athe prey departeth not:

2.The noise of a whip, ^band the noise of the moving of the wheels, and the beating of the horses, and the leaping of th charets.

3.The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude is slain, and the dead bodies are many: there is none end of their corpses: they stumble upon their corpses.

4.Because of the multitude of the fornications of the ^charlot that is beautiful, and is a mastresse of witchcraft, & selleth the people through her whoredom, and the nations through her witchcrafts.

5.Behold, I come upon thee, saith the Lord of hostes, and will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and will shewe the nations thy filthiness, and the kingdoms thy shame.

6.And I will cast filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazing stock.

7.And it shal come to pass that all they that look upon thee, shal flee from thee, and say, Ninevéh is destroyed, who will have pity upon her? where shal I seek comforters for thee?

8.Art thou better then ^dNo, which was full of people? that lay in the rivers, and had the waters round about it? whose ditch was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?

9.Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength and there was none end. Put and Lubim were ^her helpers.

10.Yet was she carried away, and went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets: and they cast lots for her noble men, and all her mighty men in chains.

11.Also thou shalt be drunken: thou shalt hide thy self, and shalt seek help because of the enemy.

12.All thy strong cities shalbe like figtrees with the first ripe figs: for if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

13.Behold, thy people within thee are women: the gates of thy land shalbe opened unto thine enemies, and the fire shal devour thy bars.

14.Draw thee waters for the siege: fortify thy strong holds: go into the clay, and temper the mortar: make strong brick.

15.There shal the fire devour thee: the sword shal cut thee off: it shal eat thee up like the ^elocusts, though thou be multiplied like the locusts, and multiplied like the grasshopper.

16.Thou hast multiplied thy marchantes above the stars of heaven: the locust spoileth and flieth away.

17.Thy princes are as the grasshoppers, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers which remain in the hedges in the cold day: but when the sun ariseth, they flee away and their place is not known where they are.

18.Thy ^fshepherdes do sleep, ô King of Asshúr: thy strong men lie down: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.

19.There is no healing of thy wound: thy plague is grievous: all that hear the bruite of thee, shal clap the hands over thee: for upon ^gwhom hath not thy malice passed continually?

Nahum 3

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