KJV King James Version
Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not;
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Nahum 3:1
Woe to the bloody city! it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the prey departeth not;
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Woe to the city of blood, full of lies, full of plunder, never without prey.
WEB World English Bible
Woe to the bloody city! It is all full of lies and robbery. The prey doesn’t depart.
ASV American Standard Version
Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Woe to the city of blood, She is all with lies—burglary—full, Prey doth not depart.
Surrounding context — Nahum 3
1 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.
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Habakkuk 2:12Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!Zephaniah 3:1-3Woe to her that is filthy and polluted, to the oppressing city!Ezekiel 24:6-9Wherefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum [is] therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.Ezekiel 22:2-3Now, thou son of man, wilt thou judge, wilt thou judge the bloody city? yea, thou shalt shew her all her abominations.Hosea 4:2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and blood toucheth blood.Nahum 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.Isaiah 17:14And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.Isaiah 42:24Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? did not the LORD, he against whom we have sinned? for they would not walk in his ways, neither were they obedient unto his law.Isaiah 24:9They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.
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