Nahum 3:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

But she was captured and taken to a foreign country. Her children were murdered at every street corner. The members of her royal family were auctioned off, and her high officials were bound in chains.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

“Sir, why are you crying?” Hazael asked. Elisha answered, “Because I know the terrible things you will do to the people of Israel. You will burn down their walled cities and slaughter their young men. You will even crush the heads of their babies and rip open their pregnant women.”

Job 6:27

Why, you would sell an orphan or your own neighbour!

Psalm 137:8

Babylon, you are doomed! I pray the Lord's blessings on anyone who punishes you for what you did to us.

Psalm 137:9

May the Lord bless everyone who beats your children against the rocks!

Psalm 149:8

Put chains of iron on their kings and rulers.

Isaiah 13:16

They will see their children beaten against rocks, their homes robbed, and their wives abused.

Isaiah 13:6

Cry and weep! The day is coming when the mighty LORD will bring destruction.

Isaiah 19:4

I will put the Egyptians under the power of a cruel, heartless king. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have promised this.”

Isaiah 20:4

Everyone in these two countries will be led away naked and barefoot by the king of Assyria. Young or old, they will be taken prisoner, and Egypt will be disgraced.

Lamentations 2:19

Get up and pray for help all through the night. Pour out your feelings to the Lord, as you would pour water out of a jug. Beg him to save your people, who are starving to death at every street crossing.

Lamentations 4:1

The purest gold is ruined and has lost its shine; jewels from the temple lie scattered in the streets.

Ezekiel 29:7

When they reached out to you for support, you broke in half, cutting their arms and making them fall.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be punished for turning against me. It will be destroyed in war— children will be beaten against rocks, and pregnant women will be ripped open.

Joel 3:3

and gambled to see who would get my people; they sold boys and girls to pay for prostitutes and wine.

Amos 1:13

The LORD said: I will punish Ammon for countless crimes, and I won't change my mind. In Gilead they ripped open pregnant women, just to take the land.

Obadiah 1:11

You stood there and watched as foreigners entered Jerusalem and took what they wanted. In fact, you were no better than those foreigners.