Nahúm 3:1

Descripción del fin de Nínive

1 ¡Ay de la ciudad sedienta de sangre,repleta de mentira,insaciable en su rapiña,aferrada a la presa!

Nahúm 3:1 Meaning and Commentary

Nahum 3:1

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.

Nahúm 3:1 In-Context

1 ¡Ay de la ciudad sedienta de sangre,repleta de mentira,insaciable en su rapiña,aferrada a la presa!

2 Se oye el chasquido de los látigos,el estrépito de las ruedas,el galopar de los caballos,el chirrido de los carros,

3 la carga de la caballería,el fulgor de las espadas,el centellear de las lanzas,la multitud de muertos,los cuerpos amontonados,los cadáveres por doquier,en los que todos tropiezan.

4 ¡Y todo por las muchas prostitucionesde esa ramera de encantos zalameros,de esa maestra de la seducción!Engañó a los pueblos con sus fornicaciones,y a los clanes con sus embrujos.

5 «¡Aquí estoy contra ti!—afirma el SEÑORTodopoderoso—.Te levantaré la falda hasta la cara,para que las naciones vean tu desnudez,y los reinos descubran tus vergüenzas.