Nahum 3:10

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Yet she became an exile; she went into captivity; even her infants were dashed in pieces at the head of every street; lots were cast for her nobles; all her dignitaries were bound in fetters.

Cross References

2 Kings 8:12

Hazael asked, “Why does my lord weep?” He answered, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the people of Israel; you will set their fortresses on fire; you will kill their young men with the sword, dash in pieces their little ones, and rip up their pregnant women.”

Job 6:27

You would even cast lots over the orphan and bargain over your friend.

Psalm 137:8

O daughter Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall they be who pay you back what you have done to us!

Psalm 137:9

Happy shall they be who take your little ones and dash them against the rock!

Psalm 149:8

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

Isaiah 13:16

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses will be plundered and their wives raped.

Isaiah 13:6

Wail, for the day of the Lord is near; it will come like destruction from the Almighty!

Isaiah 19:4

I will deliver the Egyptians into the hand of a hard master; a fierce king will rule over them, says the Sovereign, the Lord of hosts.

Isaiah 20:4

so shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians as captives and the Cushites as exiles, both the young and the old, naked and barefoot, with 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 presence of the Lord! Lift your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim; how the pure gold is changed! The sacred stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ezekiel 29:7

when they grasped you with the hand, you broke and tore all their shoulders, and when they leaned on you, you broke and made all their legs give way.

Hosea 13:16

Samaria shall bear her guilt because she has rebelled against her God; they shall fall by the sword; their little ones shall be dashed in pieces, and their pregnant women ripped open.

Joel 3:3

and cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes and sold girls for wine and drunk it down.

Amos 1:13

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

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 for Jerusalem, you, too, were one of them.