Nahúm 3:1

1 Juicio del Señor
contra Nínive
¡Qué aflicción le espera a Nínive,
la ciudad de crímenes y mentiras!
Está saturada de riquezas
y nunca le faltan víctimas.

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 Juicio del Señor
contra Nínive
¡Qué aflicción le espera a Nínive,
la ciudad de crímenes y mentiras!
Está saturada de riquezas
y nunca le faltan víctimas.

2 ¡Oigan el chasquido de los látigos
y el retumbo de las ruedas!
Los cascos de los caballos retumban
y los carros de guerra traquetean sin control.

3 ¡Miren cómo destellan las espadas y brillan las lanzas
cuando pasa la caballería!
Hay muertos incontables,
hay montones de cadáveres,
tantos que la gente tropieza con ellos.

4 Y todo porque Nínive
—la ciudad hermosa e incrédula,
la amante con encantos mortales—
sedujo a las naciones con su belleza.
Ella les enseñó toda su magia
y hechizó a la gente por todas partes.

5 «¡Yo soy tu enemigo!
—dice el Señor
de los Ejércitos Celestiales—.
Ahora te levantaré la falda
y mostraré tu desnudez y tu vergüenza a toda la tierra.