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Harlot Nineveh Will Get What She Deserves

“Because of the many idolatries of the prostitute,
    the beautiful charm of a mistress of witchcraft,
she who enslaves nations by her harlotries,
    and peoples by her sorceries,
“Look! I am against you!” declares[a]Yahweh.
    “I will strip up your skirts over your face;
        I will let nations look at your nakedness and your shame.
“I will throw filth upon you,
    I will treat you with contempt,
        I will make you a spectacle.
“And it will be that everyone who sees you will flee from you,
    And they[b] will say, ‘Nineveh is destroyed!’
Who will mourn for her?
    From whence shall I seek comforters for you?”

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Footnotes

  1. Nahum 3:5 Literally “a declaration of”
  2. Nahum 3:7 Hebrew “he”

Innumerable are the harlotries of this well-favored whore,
    this mistress of witchcraft,
who enslaves nations through her fornication
    and families through her sorcery.

God’s Decree against Nineveh

“Look, I am against you,” declares the Lord of the Heavenly Armies,
    “so I will pull up your dress over your face.
I will show your nakedness to the nations,
    and your disgrace to the kingdoms.
I will hurl abominable filth upon you,
    making you look foolish,
        and making an example of you.
It will be that everyone who looks at you will run away, saying,
    ‘Nineveh has been violently overthrown!
        Who will mourn for her?
    Where will I find anyone to comfort you?’”

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