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Nahúm 3
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
Nahúm 3
Nueva Biblia de las Américas
Ruina total de Nínive
3 ¡Ay de la ciudad sanguinaria(A),
Toda llena de mentira y de pillaje,
Que nunca cesa en su rapiña!
2 Chasquido de látigos,
Ruido del crujir de ruedas,
Galopar de caballos,
Y saltar de carros(B);
3 Carga de caballería,
Flamear de espadas,
Fulgor de lanzas(C);
Multitud de heridos,
Montones de muertos(D),
Innumerables cadáveres;
Tropiezan en los cadáveres(E).
4 Todo por las muchas prostituciones de la ramera(F),
La encantadora, la maestra de hechizos(G),
Que seduce a las naciones con sus prostituciones(H)
Y a los pueblos con sus hechizos.
5 «Aquí estoy contra ti», declara el Señor de los ejércitos(I).
«Levantaré tus faldas sobre tu rostro(J),
Y mostraré a las naciones tu desnudez
Y a los reinos tu vergüenza(K).
6 -»Echaré sobre ti inmundicias(L),
Te haré despreciable(M), y haré de ti un espectáculo(N).
7 -»Y sucederá que todo el que te vea
Huirá de ti, y dirá:
“¡Asolada está Nínive!
¿Quién llorará por ella?”.
¿Dónde te buscaré consoladores(O)?».
8 ¶¿Eres tú mejor que Tebas(P),
La asentada junto al Nilo,
Rodeada de aguas,
Cuyo baluarte era el mar
Y las aguas su muralla(Q)?
9 Etiopía era su fortaleza(R),
También Egipto, y no tenía límite.
Fut(S) y Libia(T) estaban entre los que la ayudaban.
10 Sin embargo, ella fue desterrada,
Llevada al cautiverio(U);
También sus niños fueron estrellados(V)
En todas las bocacalles(W).
Sobre sus nobles echaron suertes(X),
Y todos sus principales fueron atados con cadenas.
11 Tú también quedarás embriagada(Y),
Estarás escondida(Z);
Tú también buscarás refugio del enemigo.
12 Todas tus fortalezas son higueras
Cargadas de los primeros frutos;
Si se sacuden(AA), caen
En la boca de quien las va a comer(AB).
13 Así es tu pueblo: solo mujeres en medio de ti(AC).
Las puertas de tu tierra se abren de par en par a tus enemigos;
El fuego devora tus cerrojos(AD).
14 Abastécete de agua para el asedio(AE),
Refuerza tus fortalezas(AF),
Métete en el lodo y pisa el barro,
Toma el molde de ladrillos.
15 Allí te consumirá el fuego,
Te destruirá la espada(AG),
Te devorará como el pulgón(AH).
Multiplícate como el pulgón,
Multiplícate como la langosta.
16 Has multiplicado tus mercaderes(AI)
Más que las estrellas del cielo;
El pulgón despoja y vuela.
17 Tus oficiales son como la langosta(AJ),
Tus jefes como nubes de langostas(AK)
Posados sobre las tapias
En un día de frío;
Sale el sol, y se van,
Y no se sabe donde están.
18 Duermen tus pastores(AL),
Oh rey de Asiria(AM);
Tus nobles(AN) reposan.
Tu pueblo está disperso por los montes(AO)
Y no hay quien lo reúna.
19 No hay remedio para tu quebranto(AP),
Tu herida es incurable(AQ).
Todos los que oigan noticias de ti
Batirán palmas sobre ti(AR),
Porque ¿sobre quién no pasó
Constantemente tu maldad?
Nahum 3
New International Version
Nahum 3
New International Version
Woe to Nineveh
3 Woe to the city of blood,(A)
full of lies,(B)
full of plunder,
never without victims!
2 The crack of whips,
the clatter of wheels,
galloping horses
and jolting chariots!
3 Charging cavalry,
flashing swords
and glittering spears!
Many casualties,
piles of dead,
bodies without number,
people stumbling over the corpses(C)—
4 all because of the wanton lust of a prostitute,
alluring, the mistress of sorceries,(D)
who enslaved nations by her prostitution(E)
and peoples by her witchcraft.
5 “I am against(F) you,” declares the Lord Almighty.
“I will lift your skirts(G) over your face.
I will show the nations your nakedness(H)
and the kingdoms your shame.
6 I will pelt you with filth,(I)
I will treat you with contempt(J)
and make you a spectacle.(K)
7 All who see you will flee(L) from you and say,
‘Nineveh(M) is in ruins(N)—who will mourn for her?’(O)
Where can I find anyone to comfort(P) you?”
8 Are you better than(Q) Thebes,(R)
situated on the Nile,(S)
with water around her?
The river was her defense,
the waters her wall.
9 Cush[a](T) and Egypt were her boundless strength;
Put(U) and Libya(V) were among her allies.
10 Yet she was taken captive(W)
and went into exile.
Her infants were dashed(X) to pieces
at every street corner.
Lots(Y) were cast for her nobles,
and all her great men were put in chains.(Z)
11 You too will become drunk;(AA)
you will go into hiding(AB)
and seek refuge from the enemy.
12 All your fortresses are like fig trees
with their first ripe fruit;(AC)
when they are shaken,
the figs(AD) fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Look at your troops—
they are all weaklings.(AE)
The gates(AF) of your land
are wide open to your enemies;
fire has consumed the bars of your gates.(AG)
14 Draw water for the siege,(AH)
strengthen your defenses!(AI)
Work the clay,
tread the mortar,
repair the brickwork!
15 There the fire(AJ) will consume you;
the sword(AK) will cut you down—
they will devour you like a swarm of locusts.
Multiply like grasshoppers,
multiply like locusts!(AL)
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
till they are more numerous than the stars in the sky,
but like locusts(AM) they strip the land
and then fly away.
17 Your guards are like locusts,(AN)
your officials like swarms of locusts
that settle in the walls on a cold day—
but when the sun appears they fly away,
and no one knows where.
18 King of Assyria, your shepherds[b] slumber;(AO)
your nobles lie down to rest.(AP)
Your people are scattered(AQ) on the mountains
with no one to gather them.
19 Nothing can heal you;(AR)
your wound is fatal.
All who hear the news about you
clap their hands(AS) at your fall,
for who has not felt
your endless cruelty?(AT)
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:9 That is, the upper Nile region
- Nahum 3:18 That is, rulers
Nahum 3
New Catholic Bible
Nahum 3
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 3
Woe to the Bloodstained City[a]
1 Woe to the bloodstained city,
festering with lies,
full of booty,
never ceasing in its plunder.
2 Endless are the crack of the whip
and the rumbling of wheels,
galloping horses
and jolting chariots,
3 charging cavalry,
flashing swords,
shimmering spears,
endless piles of the slain,
heaps of corpses,
endless bodies to stumble over.
4 Because of the persistent debaucheries of the harlot,
with her alluring facade as a mistress of sorcery,
who enslaved nations by her harlotries
and peoples by her witchcraft.
5 “I am against you,”
says the Lord of hosts.
“I will lift up your skirts over your face
and exhibit your nakedness to the nations,
your shame to the kingdoms.
6 I will pelt you with filth,
and treat you with contempt,
and make a spectacle of you.
7 Then all those who see you
will shrink from you and say,
‘Nineveh is destroyed.’
Who will console her?
Where can anyone be found to comfort you?”
Are You Better than No-amon?[b]
8 [c]Are you better than No-amon,
a city situated among streams
and surrounded by water,
with the seas serving as her rampart
and water as her wall?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength,
and that strength was boundless;
Put and the Lybians were her allies.
10 Nevertheless, even she became an exile
and went into captivity.
Even her infants were dashed to pieces
at every street corner.
Lots were cast for her nobles,
and all her leaders were put in chains.
11 You, too, will become drunk
and go into hiding.
You, too, will flee,
seeking a refuge from the enemy.
The Situation of Nineveh Is Desperate[d]
12 All your fortresses are fig trees
that bear early fruit.
As soon as they are shaken,
they fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Look at your troops.
You are a nation of women.
The gates of your country
lie open to your enemies;
fire has consumed the bars of your gates.
14 Draw yourselves water for the siege!
Strengthen your fortifications!
Trample the clay,
tread the mortar,
repair the brickwork!
15 Then the fire will consume you
and the sword will cut you off.
Multiply yourselves like the locusts,
make yourselves as numerous as the grasshoppers.
Like the Locusts, Strip the Land and Fly Away[e]
16 You have increased the number of your merchants
until they now outnumber the stars of the heavens,
but like the locusts, they strip the land
and then fly away.
17 Your guards are like locusts,
and your scribes are like swarms of grasshoppers
that settle in the walls
on a cold day.
However, when the sun rises, they fly away,
and no one knows where they have gone.
Incurable Is Your Sickness[f]
18 Alas, your shepherds are asleep,
O king of Assyria;
your neighbors lie down to rest.
Your people are scattered on the mountains
with no one to gather them.
19 There is no way to relieve your wound;
your injury is mortal.
All who hear this news about your fate
clap their hands over your downfall.
For who has not suffered
as a result of your relentless cruelty?
Footnotes
- Nahum 3:1 Hallucinating description of the last days of Nineveh: the seductive gluttony of the peoples undergoes the pain of adulterous women.
- Nahum 3:8 Nineveh will know the fate that she herself inflicted, at the time of her splendor, at Thebes, the opulent city of Egypt plundered, in 767 B.C., by Ashurbanipal. This tragic change of situation underlies the fragility of empires built by men.
- Nahum 3:8 No-amon: called Thebes by the Greeks, was the capital of Upper Egypt; it, too, fell despite the power of Pharaoh Tirhakah (an Ethiopian by origin; see v. 9). Put: a non-Semitic population in southern Egypt.
- Nahum 3:12 What good, then, is it to work to repair the gaps with clay and intrigues.
- Nahum 3:16 Like a swarm of insects, a crowd of businessmen and functionaries had battered the Orient. The wind turns and goes, and takes away the evil-doing swarm.
- Nahum 3:18 This funereal chant, full of irony, reveals to what point the Assyrian tyranny had reached.
Nahum 3
King James Version
Nahum 3
King James Version
3 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;
2 The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.
3 The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:
4 Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.
5 Behold, I am against thee, saith the Lord of hosts; and I will discover thy skirts upon thy face, and I will shew the nations thy nakedness, and the kingdoms thy shame.
6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
7 And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?
8 Art thou better than populous No, that was situate among the rivers, that had the waters round about it, whose rampart was the sea, and her wall was from the sea?
9 Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength, and it was infinite; Put and Lubim were thy helpers.
10 Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
11 Thou also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy.
12 All thy strong holds shall be like fig trees with the firstripe figs: if they be shaken, they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater.
13 Behold, thy people in the midst of thee are women: the gates of thy land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies: the fire shall devour thy bars.
14 Draw thee waters for the siege, fortify thy strong holds: go into clay, and tread the morter, make strong the brickkiln.
15 There shall the fire devour thee; the sword shall cut thee off, it shall eat thee up like the cankerworm: make thyself many as the cankerworm, make thyself many as the locusts.
16 Thou hast multiplied thy merchants above the stars of heaven: the cankerworm spoileth, and fleeth away.
17 Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp 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 shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
19 There is no healing of thy bruise; thy wound is grievous: all that hear the bruit of thee shall clap the hands over thee: for upon whom hath not thy wickedness passed continually?
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