Nahúm 3:1

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¡Ay de la ciudad sanguinaria, toda llena de mentira y de pillaje, que nunca cesa en su rapiña!

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AY de la ciudad de sangres, toda llena de mentira y de rapi�a, sin apartarse de ella el pillaje!

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�Ay de ti, ciudad sanguinaria, toda llena de mentira y de rapi�a, no se aparta del pillaje!

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�Ay de la ciudad de sangre, toda llena de mentira y de rapi�a, no se aparta de ella el robo!

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

to: Isaiah 24:9, Ezekiel 22:2, Ezekiel 22:3, Ezekiel 24:6-9, Habakkuk 2:12, Zephaniah 3:1-3

bloody city: Heb. city of bloods

full: Nahum 2:12, Isaiah 17:14, Isaiah 42:24, Hosea 4:2

Reciprocal: Isaiah 10:14 - And my Ezekiel 24:9 - Woe Ezekiel 31:3 - the Assyrian Ezekiel 32:22 - Asshur Micah 5:6 - they Nahum 2:11 - the dwelling Nahum 2:13 - I will cut

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Woe to the bloody city,.... Nineveh, in which many murders were daily committed; innocent blood shed; the lives of men taken away, under the colour of justice, by false witnesses, and other unlawful methods; and which was continually making war with neighbouring nations, and shedding their blood, which it stuck not at, to enlarge its wealth and dominions; and therefore "woe" is denounced against it; and it is threatened with the righteous judgments of God, with all sorts of calamity and distress: or, "O bloody city", as the Septuagint; for the word used is vocative, and expressive of calling, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe:

it [is] all full of lies [and] robbery; the palace and court; the houses of noblemen and common persons were full of flattery and deceit; men of high degree were a lie, and men of low degree vanity; no man could trust another, or believe what he said; there were no truth, honesty, and faithfulness, in conversation or commerce; their warehouses were full of goods, got by rapine and violence; and their streets full of robbers and robberies:

the prey departeth not; they go on in making a prey of their neighbours, in pillaging and plundering their substance; they repent not of such evil practices, nor desist from them; or because of the above sins they shall fall a prey to the enemy, who will not cease plundering them till he has utterly stripped them of all they have; and who is represented in the next verse Nahum 3:2 as just at hand.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Woe to the bloody city - Literally, “city of bloods” , i. e., of manifold bloodshedding, built and founded in blood Habakkuk 2:12; Jeremiah 22:13, as the prosperity of the world ever is. Murder, oppression, wresting of judgment, war out of covetousness, grinding or neglect of the poor, make it “a city of bloods.” Nineveh, or the world, is a city of the devil, as opposed to the “city of God.” : “Two sorts of love have made two sorts of cities; the earthly, love of self even to contempt of God; the heavenly, love of God even to contempt of self. The one glorieth in itself, the other in the Lord.” : “Amid the manifold differences of the human race, in languages, habits, rites, arms, dress, there are but two kinds of human society, which, according to our Scriptures, we may call two cities. One is of such as wish to live according to the flesh; the other of such as will according to the Spirit.” “Of these, one is predestined to live forever with God; the other, to undergo everlasting torment with the devil.” Of this city, or evil world, Nineveh, the city of bloods, is the type.

It is all full of lies and robbery - Better, “it is all lie; it is full of robbery” (rapine). “Lie” includes all falsehood, in word or act, denial of God, hypocrisy; toward man, it speaks of treachery, treacherous dealing, in contrast with open violence or rapine . The whole being of the wicked is one lie, toward God and man; deceiving and deceived; leaving no place for God who is the Truth; seeking through falsehood things which fail. Man “loveth vanity and seeketh after leasing” Psalms 4:2. All were gone out of the way. Alb.: “There were none in so great a multitude, for whose sake the mercy of God might spare so great a city.” It is full, not so much of booty as of rapine and violence. The sin remains, when the profit is gone. Yet it ceases not, but perseveres to the end; “the prey departs not;” they will neither leave the sin, nor the sin them; they neither repent, nor are weary of sinning. Avarice especially gains vigor in old age, and grows by being fed. “The prey departeth not,” but continues as a witness against it, as a lion’s lair is defiled by the fragments of his prey.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER III

The prophet denounces a wo against Nineveh for her perfidy and

violence. He musters up before our eyes the number of her

chariots and cavalry; points to her burnished arms, and to the

great and unrelenting slaughter which she spreads around her,

1-3.

Because Nineveh is a city wholly given up to the grossest

superstition, and is an instructress of other nations in

her abominable rites, therefore she shall come to a most

ignominious and unpitied end, 3-7.

Her final ruin shall be similar to that of No, a famous city

of Egypt, 8-11.

The prophet then beautifully describes the great ease with

which the strong holds of Nineveh should be taken, 12,

and her judicial pusillanimity during the siege, 13;

declares that all her preparation, her numbers, opulence, and

chieftains, would be of no avail in the day of the Lord's

vengeance, 14-17;

and that her tributaries would desert her, 18.

The whole concludes with stating the incurableness of her

malady, and the dreadful destruction consequently awaiting her;

and with introducing the nations which she had oppressed as

exulting at her fall, 19.

NOTES ON CHAP. III

Verse Nahum 3:1. Wo to the bloody city! — Nineveh: the threatenings against which are continued in a strain of invective, astonishing for its richness, variety, and energy. One may hear and see the whip crack, the horses prancing, the wheels rumbling, the chariots bounding after the galloping steeds; the reflection from the drawn and highly polished swords; and the hurled spears, like flashes of lightning, dazzling the eyes; the slain lying in heaps, and horses and chariots stumbling over them! O what a picture, and a true representation of a battle, when one side is broken, and all the cavalry of the conqueror fall in upon them, hewing them down with their swords, and trampling them to pieces under the hoofs of their horses! O! infernal war! Yet sometimes thou art the scourge of the Lord.