Nahúm 3:1

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

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 sanguinaria, toda llena de mentira y de pillaje, que nunca cesa en su rapiña!

2 Chasquido de látigos, ruido del crujir de ruedas, galopar de caballos, y saltar de carros;

3 carga de caballería, flamear de espadas, fulgor de lanzas; multitud de heridos, montones de muertos, innumerables cadáveres; tropiezan en los cadáveres.

4 Todo por las muchas prostituciones de la ramera, la encantadora, la maestra de hechizos, que seduce a las naciones con sus prostituciones y a los pueblos con sus hechizos.

5 Heme aquí contra tideclara el SEÑOR de los ejércitos. Levantaré tus faldas sobre tu rostro, y mostraré a las naciones tu desnudez y a los reinos tu verguenza.