Nahum 3:10

Modern English Version

Yet she went into exile, she went into captivity; her young children were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; they cast lots for her honorable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael said, “Why are you weeping, my lord?” He said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the Israelites. You will set their fortresses on fire. You will kill their young men with the sword. You will smash their children and rip open their pregnant women.”

Job 6:27

Yes, you cast lots for the fatherless, and you bargain over your friend.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter of Babylon, destined to be destroyed, blessed shall he be who rewards you as you have served us!

Psalm 137:9

Blessed shall he be who takes your little ones and dashes them against the rocks!

Psalm 149:8

to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

Isaiah 13:16

Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be devastated and their wives ravished.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is at hand! It shall come as destruction from the Almighty.

Isaiah 19:4

The Egyptians I will give over into the hand of a cruel lord, and a fierce king shall rule over them, says the Lord, the Lord of Hosts.

Isaiah 20:4

so the king of Assyria shall lead away the Egyptians as prisoners and the Cushites as captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Lamentations 2:19

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your hands to Him for the lives of your young children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has become dim! How the most fine gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 29:7

When they took hold of you by your hand, you broke and tore all their hands. And when they leaned upon you, you broke and made all their legs shake.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria will be held guilty, for she has rebelled against her God. They will fall by the sword, their infants will be dashed to pieces, and their pregnant women will be ripped open.

Joel 3:3

They have cast lots for My people, and have traded a boy for a prostitute; they have sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.

Amos 1:13

Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of the Ammonites, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they ripped open the pregnant women of Gilead, in order to enlarge their border.

Obadiah 1:11

On the day that you stood aside, on the day that strangers carried off his wealth, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots on Jerusalem, you also were like one of them.