Nahum 3:1

1 Malheur à la ville sanguinaire! Elle est toute pleine de mensonge et de violence, la rapine ne s'en retire point.

Nahum 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.

Nahum 3:1 In-Context

1 Malheur à la ville sanguinaire! Elle est toute pleine de mensonge et de violence, la rapine ne s'en retire point.

2 On entend le bruit du fouet, le bruit retentissant des roues, les chevaux qui galopent, les chars qui bondissent.

3 Les cavaliers s'élancent, l'épée brille et la lance étincelle. C'est une multitude de blessés! Une foule de cadavres, des corps morts à l'infini! Ils trébuchent sur leurs morts.

4 C'est à cause des nombreuses prostitutions de la prostituée, pleine d'attraits, habile enchanteresse, qui vendait les nations par ses prostitutions, et les peuples par ses enchantements.

5 Voici, j'en veux à toi, dit l'Éternel des armées! Je relèverai les pans de ta robe sur ton visage, et je montrerai aux nations ta nudité, et ta honte aux royaumes.