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Nahum 3:10 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains. "
Nahum 3:10
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8 Are you better than No-Amon, who was situated among the rivers, who had the waters around her, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was of the sea?
9 Cush and Egypt were her boundless strength. Put and Libya were her helpers.
10 Yet was she carried away. She went into captivity. Her young children also were dashed in pieces at the head of all the streets, and they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 You also will be drunken. You will be hidden. You also will seek a stronghold because of the enemy.
12 All your fortresses will be like fig trees with the first-ripe figs. If they are shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.
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Nahum 3:1
"Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery—no end to the prey."
Nahum 3:2
"The noise of the whip, the noise of the rattling of wheels, prancing horses, and bounding chariots,"
Nahum 3:3
"the horseman charging, and the flashing sword, the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies. They stumble on their bodies"
Nahum 3:4
"because of the multitude of the prostitution of the alluring prostitute, the mistress of witchcraft, who sells nations through her prostitution, and families through her witchcraft."
Nahum 3:5
"“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of Armies, “and I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame."
Nahum 3:6
"I will throw abominable filth on you and make you vile, and will make you a spectacle."
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