Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Nahum 3:1 - New Revised Standard Version Ah! City of bloodshed, utterly deceitful, full of booty— no end to the plunder! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition WOE TO the bloody city! It is full of lies and booty and [there is] no end to the plunder! [Ezek. 24:6, 9, 10; Hab. 2:12.] American Standard Version (1901) Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and rapine; the prey departeth not. Common English Bible Doom, city of bloodshed—all deceit, full of plunder: prey cannot get away. Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to the city of blood, filled with all manner of lies and violence. Crime shall not depart from you: Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to thee, O city of blood, all full of lies and violence: rapine shall not depart from thee. |
Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
At evening time, lo, terror! Before morning, they are no more. This is the fate of those who despoil us, and the lot of those who plunder us.
No longer do they drink wine with singing; strong drink is bitter to those who drink it.
Who gave up Jacob to the spoiler, and Israel to the robbers? Was it not the Lord, against whom we have sinned, in whose ways they would not walk, and whose law they would not obey?
Swearing, lying, and murder, and stealing and adultery break out; bloodshed follows bloodshed.
The lion has torn enough for his whelps and strangled prey for his lionesses; he has filled his caves with prey and his dens with torn flesh.
See, I am against you, says the Lord of hosts, and I will burn your chariots in smoke, and the sword shall devour your young lions; I will cut off your prey from the earth, and the voice of your messengers shall be heard no more.
“Alas for you who build a town by bloodshed, and found a city on iniquity!”