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Nahum 3:19 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty? "
Nahum 3:19
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17 Your guards are like the locusts, and your officials like the swarms of locusts, which settle on the walls on a cold day, but when the sun appears, they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.
18 Your shepherds slumber, king of Assyria. Your nobles lie down. Your people are scattered on the mountains, and there is no one to gather them.
19 There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you, for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?
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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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